Patients received a median of 8 unique prescriptions over the study period. This reduced the number of alerts for which an action could reasonably be expected to occur to 24,266.
Prescription medications are one of the most powerful interventions for treating patient illnesses.
In several recent studies the problems associated with adverse drug events have been quantified. Until physicians routinely use computer-based medication ordering systems, a concurrent, drug utilization review program is the next best thing. Dean F. Sittig Informatics-Review Vol.