Uncovering Discrepancies in IV Vancomycin Infusion Records between Pump Logs and EHR Documentation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infusion start time, completion time, and interruptions are the key data points needed in both area under the concentration-time curve (AUC)- and trough-based vancomycin therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). However, little is known about the accuracy of documented times of drug infusions compared with automated recorded events in the infusion pump system. A traditional approach of direct observations of infusion practice is resource intensive and impractical to scale. We need a new methodology to leverage the infusion pump event logs to understand the prevalence of timestamp discrepancies as documented in the electronic health records (EHRs).

Objectives

We aimed to analyze timestamp discrepancies between EHR documentation (the information used for clinical decision

SUBMITTER: Tung TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9492321 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature