Clinical decision support for drug related events: moving towards better prevention. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Clinical decision support for drug related events: moving towards better prevention. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published November 2016

Clinical decision support for drug related events: moving towards better prevention.

Kane-Gill SL, Achanta A, Kellum JA, Handler SM. World J Crit Care Med. 2016;5:204-211.

Medication administration technologies can help collect data to enhance processes and reduce medication errors. This commentary discusses how organizations are using clinical decision support systems to track problems and incorporating different data sets to prevent adverse drug events.

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