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Record W2130219480 · doi:10.1136/qshc.2010.041020

Admitting medication errors: five critical concepts

2010· letter· en· W2130219480 on OpenAlexaff
Edward Etchells

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ Quality & Safety · 2010
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
Canadian institutionsHealth Sciences CentreSunnybrook Health Science CentreUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineMedication ReconciliationPharmacistMedical prescriptionEmergency departmentEmergency medicineTechnicianHospital admissionAdverse effectMedical historyPatient safetyMedical emergencyPediatricsFamily medicinePharmacyInternal medicinePsychiatryNursingHealth care

Abstract

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De Winter et al ( see page 371 ) studied 3594 patients admitted to hospital through an emergency department and found that 59% of patients had a discrepancy between the physician's medication history and a pharmacist technician's structured medication history.1 This result is consistent with over 20 small studies (median sample size 104 patients) showing 61–67% of patients have at least one discrepancy in the medication history at the time of hospital admission.2 There are at least three good reasons to obtain an accurate medication history at the time of hospital admission. First, more than 1 in 9 emergency department visits are due to drug-related adverse events.3 An accurate medication history will be the cornerstone for diagnosing this common problem. Second, medication history errors may result in incorrect medication orders and incorrect treatment during the admission, leading to patient harm. Third, an accurate medication history is the foundation for accurate medication instructions and prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge. Medication reconciliation (Med Rec) at admission is the process of obtaining the best-possible medication history (BPMH), and using this list to provide correct medications to patients at the time of hospital admission. Med Rec at admission is the cornerstone of Med Rec during subsequent transfers and at discharge. Med Rec is a major patient safety priority for safety improvement organisations such as the WHO,4 and hospital accreditors.5 Well-designed medication reconciliation programmes can reduce medication discrepancies6 and potential adverse drug events,7 although there are no studies to show a reduction in preventable adverse drug events. Successful medication reconciliation implementation is a challenge, as evidenced by the Joint Commission's recent decision …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.096
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.258
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.978
Threshold uncertainty score0.507

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0960.258
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0050.003
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.004
Bibliometrics0.0240.009
Science and technology studies0.0120.031
Scholarly communication0.0210.045
Open science0.0140.018
Research integrity0.0220.045
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.215
GPT teacher head0.544
Teacher spread0.329 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
DomainMethods
GenreCommentary

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