Enhancing medication safety with System Approach to Verifying Electronic Prescriptions (SAV E-Rx): pharmacists' review of product selection outcomes between prescribed and dispensed medications.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Electronic prescriptions (e-prescriptions) introduce drug product selection mismatches during pharmacy data entry. System Approach to Verifying Electronic Prescriptions (SAV E-Rx) detects and alerts pharmacy staff to clinically significant occurrences. This study evaluates outcomes of the identified mismatches.

Methods

A retrospective analysis was conducted using 1 year of e-prescriptions and dispensing data from 14 community pharmacies across 9 US states. SAV E-Rx screened the data, and flagged mismatches were reviewed by pharmacists using the Common Formats for Event Reporting. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, the Mann-Whitney U test and χ² tests.

Results

Of 1 250 804 records processed, 699 662 included sufficient data for compa

SUBMITTER: Gong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12458867 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature