Pharmacy-driven performance improvement initiative to increase compliance with intravenous smart pump drug error reduction systems at a large urban academic medical center.

Eliana Abboudi; Sarah W Baron; Pavel Goriacko; Emily Messing; Mark J. Sinnett; Uzoamaka Uwechia

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Pharmacy-driven performance improvement initiative to increase compliance with intravenous smart pump drug error reduction systems at a large urban academic medical center.

May 22, 2024

Abboudi E, Baron SW, Goriacko P, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2024;81(10):361-369.

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Smart pump dose error reduction systems (DERS) alert users to unsafe medication administration orders. This article describes a performance improvement project to increase utilization of smart pump DERS technology and decrease manual order entry, which is vulnerable to human errors. Use of DERS increased from 77% of administered IV medications to 83%. The most effective intervention was adding a DERS problem reporting tool to the medication administration record.

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