ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2017
Meaningful use of health information technology and declines in in-hospital adverse drug events.
Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The Value of Electronic Health Records Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act: Systematic Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2022Review
- Assessing Consistency of Drug-Drug Interaction-Related Information Across Various Drug Information Resources.Cureus · 2021Article
- Impact of electronic health records on predefined safety outcomes in patients admitted to hospital: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Evaluation of drug information resources for drug-ethanol and drug-tobacco interactions.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2019Article
- A Statewide Medication Management System: Health Information Exchange to Support Drug Therapy Optimization by Pharmacists across the Continuum of Care.Applied clinical informatics · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveNationwide initiatives have promoted greater adoption of health information technology as a means to reduce adverse drug events (ADEs). Hospital adoption of electronic health records with Meaningful Use (MU) capabilities expected to improve medication safety has grown rapidly. However, evidence that MU capabilities are associated with declines in in-hospital ADEs is lacking.
methodsData came from the 2010-2013 Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System and the 2008-2013 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics Database. Two-level random intercept logistic regression was used to estimate the association of MU capabilities and occurrence of ADEs, adjusting for patient characteristics, hospital characteristics, and year of observation.
resultsRates of in-hospital ADEs declined by 19% from 2010 to 2013. Adoption of MU capabilities was associated with 11% lower odds of an ADE (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.84-0.96). Interoperability capability was associated with 19% lower odds of an ADE (95% CI, 0.67- 0.98). Adoption of MU capabilities explained 22% of the observed reduction in ADEs, or 67,000 fewer ADEs averted by MU. DISCUSSION: Concurrent with the rapid uptake of MU and interoperability, occurrence of in-hospital ADEs declined significantly from 2010 to 2013. MU capabilities and interoperability were associated with lower occurrence of ADEs, but the effects did not vary by experience with MU. About one-fifth of the decline in ADEs from 2010 to 2013 was attributable to MU capabilities.
conclusionFindings support the contention that adoption of MU capabilities and interoperability spurred by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act contributed in part to the recent decline in ADEs.
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