Real-time pharmacy surveillance and clinical decision support to reduce adverse drug events in acute kidney injury: a randomized, controlled trial.
OBJECTIVES: Clinical decision support (CDS), such as computerized alerts, improves prescribing in the setting of acute kidney injury (AKI), but considerable opportunity remains to improve patient safety. The authors sought to determine whether pharmacy surveillance of AKI patients could detect and prevent medication errors that are not corrected by automated interventions. METHODS: The authors conducted a randomized clinical trial among 396 patients admitted to an academic, tertiary care hospital between [...]
Author(s): McCoy, Allison B, Cox, Zachary L, Neal, Erin B, Waitman, Lemuel R, Peterson, Neeraja B, Bhave, Gautam, Siew, Edward D, Danciu, Ioana, Lewis, Julia B, Peterson, Josh F
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-03-RA-0009