- 53.4%
were drug administration errors
- 47.2%
of harmful errors were prescribing errors
470 (50.2%) of the errors were considered preventable at their origin by an existing information technology system:
- 155
were due to IT system bypasses
- 103
were due to insensitivity of IT alerting systems
- 47
were due to IT alert overrides
Source: "Preventability of Voluntarily Reported or Trigger Tool-Identified Medication Errors in a Pediatric Institution by Information Technology: A Retrospective Cohort Study," Drug Safety, abstract only, May 2015, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40264-015-0303-y#page-1
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