If you have a medication history team, what metrics/outcomes do you report out to share the value of the services?

We currently have a percentage of inpatient admissions covered by pharmacy, and was wondering if there is another way to look at impact.

Thanks in advance!

Can anyone share any peds med safety metrics that you follow? Would love to see what other institutions are doing. Thanks!

I am new to my medication safety position and am working to establish some metrics that could be tracked and reported at our Medication Safety Committee meetings.

Do any of you have dashboards or metrics that you would be willing to share?

Hello all,

If your organization has outpatient oncology infusion centers, do you have any established metrics around error reporting? We are working with a multidisciplinary team on what that would look like and how we can normalize the data to compare sites of different sizes. Some studies report error rates per 100 clinic visits or 1,000 medication orders.

Does anyone have a similar metric for outpatient infusion error reporting?

Thanks,
Gina Gayed

Hello -

Recognizing that 'medication error rates' captured by voluntary incident reports is the least effective and least reliable determinant of true error rates / benchmarking....

I wondered if other institutions have developed executive-level (or really any level) benchmarks / dashboards / metrics which they follow in their health system to track performance improvement within medication safety and safety realms?

I would be particularly interested if anyone has develop these measures in the outpatient / ambulatory spaces as well.

Hi,

Curious what data and metrics other Med Safety Officers report out at their Medication Safety Meetings and the frequency of reporting this data. Do you have a set of canned reports that you are willing to share regarding what is specifically looked at?

I know there are the obvious (by drug category, by severity, etc), but wonder if we are missing anything that you find useful and potentially actionable.

Appreciate any insight.