A text mining analysis of medication quality related event reports from community pharmacies.

Background: Medication errors are estimated to cost $42 billion in annual global treatment costs. Pharmacy-based Patient Safety Organizations (PSO) are tasked with collecting and analyzing incidents, near misses, and unsafe condition reports as one way of engaging pharmacies in quality improvement efforts. Collectively, these reports are referred to as quality related events (QREs).

Evaluation of a guided continuous quality improvement program in community pharmacies.

Background: The importance of creating and sustaining a strong culture of patient safety has been recognized as a critical component of safe medication use. This study aims to assess changes in attitudes toward patient safety culture and frequency of quality-related event (QRE) reporting after guided implementation of a continuous quality improvement (CQI) program in a panel of community pharmacies in the United States (U.S.

Electronic prescribing problems reported to the Pharmacy and Provider ePrescribing Experience Reporting (PEER) portal.

Background: Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) may prevent medication errors caused by prescription illegibility; however, information technologies also may introduce different kinds of medication errors.

Objective: To identify and quantify e-prescribing problems reported through an electronic prescribing incident reporting tool in the United States.

Methods: Voluntary and anonymous reports to a web-based, e-prescribing incident reporting tool were collected during 18 months using convenience sampling.