MEDICATION SAFETY
Proactively address the most common, but often preventable, medical errors in hospitals today. With TheraDoc® solutions, you can significantly reduce ADEs and increase medication safety.Medications represent the single greatest risk for hospitalized patients in the United States1. An estimated 1.9 million ADEs occur annually within the Medicare population alone;180,000 of these events are life-threatening or fatal2,3. ADEs are costly, too. They extend patient stays by 8-to-12 days and can tack thousands of dollars onto a patient’s bill. In hospitals nationwide, ADEs are estimated to increase costs by $1.565 billion to $5.6 billion4. Tragically, the IOM concludes that at least 1.5 million preventable events take place annually.
To reduce medication errors and ADEs, you need evidence-based medical knowledge, real-time analysis of clinical data, and patient- and disease-specific treatment recommendations. You need a TheraDoc® solution.
Problem of magnitude addressed with on-site, real-time IT system.
Gathering information on all of your patients and the medications you select is very time-consuming. Doing so is essential to preventing ADEs. TheraDoc offers an active surveillance system that continuously monitors and analyzes clinical data in disparate IT systems. It works on-site and in real-time, gathering and delivering relevant patient information to you—at the point-of-care.
TheraDoc injury detection and prevention systems identify risk factors, potential events and medication problems—before patients are injured. You’ll have root cause analysis tools; structured online severity scoring and causality assessment that will help you to identify trends and issues within the medication-use process. With TheraDoc, you can efficiently reduce ADEs, increase safety and decrease costs—for today’s patients and tomorrow’s.
1 Institute for Healthcare Improvement / Patient Safety
2 Classen: Medication Safety / Moving From Illusion to Reality. JAMA. 2003; 289-1154-1156
3 Gurwitz JH, Field TS, Harrold LR, et al. Incidence and preventability of adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting. JAMA. 2003;289:1107-11116
4 www.ahrq.gov/qual/aderia/aderia.htm
