The same number of physicians moved to Canada as moved from it in 1999, the Canadian
Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports. That year 585 physicians, mostly male …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Adverse drug events (ADEs) occur often in hospitals,
causing high morbidity and a longer length of stay (LOS), and are costly. However, most …

Background: Adverse drug events (ADEs) account for considerable patient morbidity and
mortality as well as legal, operational and patient care costs. In Veterans Affairs (VA) …

As a result of increased attention to medical errors, many institutions are contemplating
increased use of information technology and clinical decision support. We conducted a …

Background Adverse drug events (ADEs) occur in both inpatient and outpatient settings. 1, 2
Most institutions use spontaneous incident reporting to detect adverse events in general …

Two outstanding articles in this issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association (JAMIA) provide exciting quantitative findings about how adverse drug events …

Objective.—To identify and evaluate the systems failures that underlie errors causing
adverse drug events (ADEs) and potential ADEs. Design.—Systems analysis of events from …

Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2002; 59: 2317-9 tial ADEs, and 5 preventable ADEs. One in 100
medication errors caused an ADE, and 7 in 100 had the potential to do so. Extrapolating …

As a result of increased attention to medical errors, many institutions are contemplating
increased use of information technology and clinical decision support. We conducted a …

Objective: To evaluate the use of a computer program to identify adverse drug events
(ADEs) in the ambulatory setting and to evaluate the relative contribution of four computer …