Poster Abstract: Drug-Lab Triggers Have Potential to Prevent Adverse Drug Events in Outpatients

Abstract

Previous studies have found that many adverse drug events (ADEs) in inpatients can be detected or prevented by alerting physicians to measured physiologic parameters such as an elevated creatinine or hyperkalemia.1,2 In developing a decision support system for an outpatient Electronic Medical Record, we have begun to retrospectively study associations between drugs and labs that could trigger an alert to physicians. …