Table 7.
Interventions with an impact on decreasing morbidity
Intervention | Number of recommendations estimated to decrease morbidity | % of all morbidity reducing recommendations |
---|---|---|
Indication w/o a medication | 85 | 31% |
Existing allergy, reaction | 22 | 8% |
Vaccines missing | 21 | 8% |
Med w/o indication | 15 | 5% |
Potential drug/food/disease interaction | 15 | 5% |
Patient counseling | 15 | 5% |
Medication selection | 15 | 5% |
Appropriate dosing | 13 | 5% |
Duplicate therapy | 13 | 5% |
Subtherapeutic dosing | 11 | 4% |
Supratherapeutic dosing | 10 | 4% |
Renal/hepatic dosing | 10 | 4% |
Guideline only | 9 | 3% |
Notable adverse drug reaction | 8 | 3% |
New alergy identified | 4 | 1% |
Dose adjustment for drug interaction | 2 | 1% |
Route change | 2 | 1% |
Allergy Information updated/deleted | 1 | 0% |
Patient allergic to original med | 1 | 0% |
Patient cannot afford original med | 1 | 0% |
Nonformulary/insurance issue | 0 | 0% |
Total | 273 | 100% |