Detection of adverse drug events using an electronic trigger tool. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Detection of adverse drug events using an electronic trigger tool. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published September 2016

Detection of adverse drug events using an electronic trigger tool.

Lim D, Melucci J, Rizer MK, Prier BE, Weber RJ. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2016;73(17 suppl 4):S112-S120.

Trigger tools, which identify possible adverse events in administrative data as a precursor to chart review, are a core method to detect safety hazards. In this study, implementation of a trigger tool successfully uncovered adverse drug events, but there were a significant number of false positive triggers.

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