How Did It Happen?A recent study found "that 6.5% of adult nonobstetrical patients admitted to two teaching hospitals suffered an ADE (adverse drug event)"; that "most errors occurred in the physician ordering (39%)." Even more interesting are the "proximal causes" of the ordering errors by the physicians: pie chart (finally)
Lack of Knowledge about Drug -- 36% (red)
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SOURCE: Leape LL, et al. Systems analysis of adverse drug events. JAMA 1995;274:35-43.
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Dynamic Chiropractic - April 22, 1996, Volume 14, Issue 09