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Signals for Safety

Diane Schultz's picture

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As we continue to stress our system through high census, acuity, etc, we are looking at signals or thresholds that would serve as proxies for the overall safety of our organization. Like many of you, we track a variety of metrics and respond as necessary, but does anyone have a system in place to signal you when there is a drift towards unsafe territory? Any ideas are appreciated.

Documenting home insulin pumps with U-500 insulin

Karin Terry's picture

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We have a situation that has recurred several times, and we struggle with it every time.
Currently, there are no insulin pumps that have settings based on U-500 insulin. Periodically, we have patients who come in with U-500 in their pump, so their pump settings do not accurately reflect the number of units they are receiving. How do we document this pump in the EMR? We try to move away from their pump to our medications, but that comes with conversion issues as well.

Vial2Bag Restrictions/Guidelines

Engie Attia's picture

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As our Operations team tries to be more efficient with pharmacy preparation and decreasing TAT we are moving more and more products away from pharmacy compounding and towards ADC stock via Vial2Bag. Are any institutions providing safeguards/restrictions on high alert high risk medications being supplied in ADC's via vial2bag? For example calcium gluconate vial2bag? or bivalirudin vial2bag? Are you allowing those to be stocked in your ADCs? and if so, have you been successful in adding any safeguards to prevent errors ?

Antibiotic stewardship. Claculation of Antibiotic consumption

Sachin Raval's picture

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Dear All

we are running antibiotic stewardship programme. Antibiotic consumption and their data calculation is most important part in stewardship programme. kindly any one give the suggestion on above topic.

we have Total patient who are on antibiotic and Antibiotic wise quantity details.

Kindly focus on brief reply.

Anyone using Epic reports to obtain Med Error data?

Madiha Syed's picture

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Hello,
Does anyone use reports from Epic or their EMR to obtain data regarding medication errors/events? If so what type of data are you able to obtain?

As with all Safety Reporting Systems our current system relies on staff to voluntarily report and so we are looking at ways to capture more data reliably through Epic/EMR. We wanted to see if anyone else has had success doing so.

Thank you,
Madiha

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