Medication safety surveillance systems should pay close attention to patient age and polypharmacy with respect to both prescribing and monitoring failures; treat prescribing and monitoring as different statistical processes, rather than a combined measure of prescribing safety; and audit the socio-economic equity of missed monitoring.
It is a medication safety and quality auditing system specifically designed for infusions that presents a series of advantages.
Systematic collection, collation, and analysis of linked primary and secondary care records produce plausible and useful information about medication safety for a health system.
Avoiding medication-related problems improves healthcare system efficiency, as also described by Berner, 29 Garg et al, 30 Hemens et al 16 and Teich et al, 31 and enhances overall quality of care in LTC; therefore it is worthwhile to investigate the benefits and effectiveness of CCDSS to improve medication safety within the healthcare system.
The extent of preventable medication-related hospital admissions and medication-related issues in primary care is significant enough to justify developing decision support systems for medication safety surveillance.
Our evaluation also showed that these factors contribute to the occurrence of critical incidents and are therefore in need of test procedures of emergency call systems and medication safety programs.
Clinical decision support systems for medication safety are considered helpful but can increase the workload and disrupt the workflow of health care professionals due to inflation of warnings [ 21].
The European PSIP project (Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures in medication, http://www.psip-project.eu) develops, among others, innovative and CDS systems to increase medication safety during prescription.
In addition, technologies to administer intravenous medication which incorporate ever more advanced safety systems and new safety software are being developed and have demonstrated a positive impact on patient quality of care, decreasing medication-related adverse events.
