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Impact of health information technology interventions to improve medication laboratory monitoring for ambulatory patients: a systematic review.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Biochemical monitoring of patients treated with antihypertensive therapy for adverse drug reactions: a systematic review.Drug safety · 2011Pooled it
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- Translation of evidence into kidney transplant clinical practice: managing drug-lab interactions by a context-aware clinical decision support system.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020Article
- Review of 128 quality of care mechanisms: A framework and mapping for health system stewards.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Review
- Lifetime Prevalence and Correlates of Patient-Perceived Medical Errors Experienced in the U.S. Ambulatory Setting: A Population-Based Study.Health equity · 2020Article
- A review on laboratory tests' utilization: A trigger for cutting costs and quality improvement in health care settings.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2016Article
- The economics of medicines optimization: policy developments, remaining challenges and research priorities.British medical bulletin · 2014Review
- Patient completion of laboratory tests to monitor medication therapy: a mixed-methods study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2013Article
- The association between use of a clinical decision support tool and adherence to monitoring for medication-laboratory guidelines in the ambulatory setting.Applied clinical informatics · 2013Article
- "Stealth" alerts to improve warfarin monitoring when initiating interacting medications.Journal of general internal medicine · 2012Article
- Patient Satisfaction With Venous Thromboembolism Treatment.Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/HemostasisArticle
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Abstract
Medication errors are a major source of morbidity and mortality. Inadequate laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications after initial prescription is a medical error that contributes to preventable adverse drug events. Health information technology (HIT)-based clinical decision support may improve patient safety by improving the laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications, but the effectiveness of such interventions is unclear. Therefore, the authors conducted a systematic review to identify studies that evaluate the independent effect of HIT interventions on improving laboratory monitoring for high-risk medications in the ambulatory setting using a Medline search from January 1, 1980 through January 1, 2009 and a manual review of relevant bibliographies. All anticoagulation monitoring studies were excluded. Eight articles met the inclusion criteria, including six randomized controlled trials and two pre-post intervention studies. Six of the studies were conducted in two large, integrated healthcare delivery systems in the USA. Overall, five of the eight studies reported statistically significant, but small, improvements in laboratory monitoring; only half of the randomized controlled trials reported statistically significant improvements. Studies that found no improvement were more likely to have used analytic strategies that addressed clustering and confounding. Whether HIT improves laboratory monitoring of certain high-risk medications for ambulatory patients remains unclear, and further research is needed to clarify this important question.
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