Clinical alerts to decrease high-risk medication use in older adults. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Clinical alerts to decrease high-risk medication use in older adults. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published July 2017

Clinical alerts to decrease high-risk medication use in older adults.

Lord-Adem W, Brandt NJ. J Gerontol Nurs. 2017;43:7-12.

High-alert medications are associated with adverse drug events and patient harm. Information technologies such as clinical alert systems can help with medication management. This commentary discusses how alerting systems can improve prescribing of high-alert medications and reviews factors that institutions should consider to successfully implement such systems.

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