The impact of electronic medical records data sources on an adverse drug event quality measure.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the impact of billing and clinical data extracted from an electronic medical record system on the calculation of an adverse drug event (ADE) quality measure approved for use in The Joint Commission's ORYX program, a mandatory national hospital quality reporting system.

Design

The Child Health Corporation of America's "Use of Rescue Agents-ADE Trigger" quality measure uses medication billing data contained in the Pediatric Health Information Systems (PHIS) data warehouse to create The Joint Commission-approved quality measure. Using a similar query, we calculated the quality measure using PHIS plus four data sources extracted from our electronic medical record (EMR) system: medications charged, medication orders placed, medication orders with associated c

SUBMITTER: Kahn MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3000787 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature