Status of the alert the next day | Alert Overridden | Alert Not overridden | Indeterminate* | Alerts posted within 1 or 2 days after prescriptions † | All | |||||
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Error | N = 50 | N = 46 | N = 7 | N = 14 | N = 117 | |||||
Type -- no (%) | ||||||||||
Inappropriate choice of drug and/or drug dose | 27 | (55.6) | 26 | (57.4) | 2 | (28.6) | 11 | (78.6) | 66 | (56.4) |
Drug-drug interaction | 10 | (20.0) | 3 | (6.5) | 1 | (14.3) | 2 | (14.3) | 16 | (13.7) |
Wrong unit | 4 | (8.0) | 1 | (2.2) | 1 | (14.3) | 1 | (7.1) | 7 | (6.0) |
Wrong route | 1 | (2.0) | 1 | (2.2) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 2 | (1.7) |
Drug omission | 8 | (16.0) | 14 | (30.4) | 2 | (28.6) | 0 | (0.0) | 24 | (20.5) |
Duplicate order | 0 | (0.0) | 1 | (2.2) | 1 | (14.3) | 0 | (0.0) | 2 | (1.7) |
Potential severity -- no (%) | ||||||||||
Life-threatening | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) |
Significant or serious | 14 | (28.0) | 7 | (15.2) | 2 | (28.6) | 8 | (57.1) | 31 | (26.5) |
None | 36 | (72.0) | 39 | (84.8) | 5 | (71.4) | 6 | (42.9) | 86 | (73.5) |