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Potential benefit of electronic pharmacy claims data to prevent medication history errors and resultant inpatient order errors.
March 23, 2016
Pevnick JM, Palmer KA, Shane R, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016;23(5):942-50.
This study measured the potential of using Surescripts electronic pharmacy claims data to prevent admission medication history errors among a sample of 70 older patients on complex medication regimens. Accessing this database would likely have prevented at least 35% of these medication reconciliation errors and nearly half of the most severe errors.
