Table.
Overall Medication Analysis in the adult ED
| Period 1 (n=1 ,678)
|
Period 2 (n=1,715)
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Number | Number per 100 orders | Total Number | Number per 100 orders | |
|
PADE |
57 |
3.4 |
68 |
4.0 |
| Duplicate therapy | 3 | 0.18 | 5 | 0.29 |
| Inappropriate dose | 7 | 0.42 | 1 | 0.06 |
| Inappropriate interval | 1 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Inappropriate route | 1 | 0.06 | 3 | 0.17 |
| Wrong drug | 1 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Wrong unit | 1 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Drug interaction | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Allergy to medication
|
43
|
2.56
|
59
|
3.44
|
|
MPE |
5832 |
347.6 |
5607 |
326.9 |
| Missing information | 3670 | 218.7 | 3483 | 203.1 |
| No weight | 1671 | 99.6 | 1640 | 95.6 |
| Illegible
|
491
|
29.3
|
484
|
28.2
|
|
RV |
430 |
25.6 |
390 |
22.7 |
| Abbreviation | 421 | 25.1 | 387 | 22.6 |
| Trailing zero | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| No leading zero | 9 | 0.5 | 3 | 0.2 |