Meaningful use of health information technology and declines in in-hospital adverse drug events.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Nationwide initiatives have promoted greater adoption of health information technology as a means to reduce adverse drug events (ADEs). Hospital adoption of electronic health records with Meaningful Use (MU) capabilities expected to improve medication safety has grown rapidly. However, evidence that MU capabilities are associated with declines in in-hospital ADEs is lacking.

Methods

Data came from the 2010-2013 Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System and the 2008-2013 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics Database. Two-level random intercept logistic regression was used to estimate the association of MU capabilities and occurrence of ADEs, adjusting for patient characteristics, hospital characteristics, and year of observation.

SUBMITTER: Furukawa MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7787251 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature