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Medical errors, emergency medicine and
1. Medical Errors, Emergency
Medicine and
Electronic Records
Dr Sagar Galwankar
MBBS, DNB, FACEE (INDIA), MD, MPH, Dip. ABEM (USA)
Founding Chairman of Academic College of Emergency Experts in India
CEO of the INDO-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative
Chief of Emergencies, Burns and Shock Trauma Center
SevenHills Hospital and Health City, Mumbai, India
Faculty of Emergency Medicine and Global Health
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida , USA
2. Overview
• Review Errors
• Address Strategies
• Look at Electronic Medium for Elimination
• Discuss Possible Solutions
• Build Systems: Private Versus Social Medicine
• Questions
3. Famous Quote
According to the Institute of Medicine’s
1999 Report, To Err is Human, “medical
errors can be defined as the failure of a
planned action to be completed as
intended or the use of a wrong plan to
achieve an aim”.
4. Error Arena -I
• Errors happen when systems are run by
humans
• More risk when humans play with technology
• Video Games are perfect examples
• Systems with Standard Systematic approach
is essential
• Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Laboratory
Personnel and Administration are all involved
8. Nursing Errors
• Error with Medications
• Error with Test and Procedure
• Error with Interpretation
• Error with Discharge
9. Laboratory Error
• Error with Conducting Tests
• Error with Reporting Results
Machines to IT Interphase is better than
Machines reporting to Humans and humans
feeding the data to IT.
10. Ordering Error
• Error with ordering Tests
• Error with ordering Procedures
• Error with Documentation
• Error with Interpretation of orders
11. Interpretation Error
• At every level
• Inapropriate communication
• Abbreviations
• Incorrect forms
• Incorrect terminology
• Incorrect doses/ procedures/ order segments
12. Administration Error
• Risk Surveillance lapse
• Inapropriate billing
• Inapropriate coding
• Dispensing incorrect test results and patient
records
13. Solutions to Common Errors -I
• Building Pre-set orders initiated at triage
• Example: Chest Pain, Abdominal Pain etc
• Building Pre-Set History Sheet Based on
Standard EM History Acquisition related to
Common Complaints namely: Chest
Pain, SOB, N/V/D, Back Pain, Headache
• Building a Common Order Platform
• X-ray-UPT Pre-Requisite, Contrast-Consent-
Creatinine Pre-Requisite
14. Solutions to Common Errors -II
• Building a ED Standard Medication Registry
with Pre-Set Minimal and Maximal Dosing
Order Form
• Building a Timer to Coordinate every time a
Note /Update is added
• Electronic Signature Interphase
• Bar Code Interphase
• Pre-Set Consent Forms for High Risk Care
15. Solutions to Common Errors –III
• Mandatory Electronic Signatures
• Laboratory Order/ Result Alerts to Nurses and
Physician with High and Lower Color Coded
• Verbal Communication for Life Threatening
results with Notifier and Notified Signatures
• Consult Alerts to be Built In
• Pre-Set Discharge Instructions: Admission,
Transfer, Mortuary, OT, AMA
• Pre-Set Consent Forms with Signature Pad for E-
Sign
16. Solutions to Common Errors -IV
• ABBREVIATION POLICY MANDATORY
• RISK REVIEW MANDATORY
• SHOW CAUSE NOTICE MANDATORY
• COLORS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
• PACS INTERPHASE NEEDS TO EB
COORDINATED
• MULTIPLE CENTER PAST RECORDS NEED TO
BE INTERPHASED
17. Solutions to Common Errors -V
• DATA TRANSFER FROM LAB INSTRUMENTS AND READERS TO
EMR/EHR
• SCAN FACILITY WHEN SYSTEM COLLAPSES
• BAR CODED CHIP RECORDS
• ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM FOR BILLING AND
AND FOLLOW UP
• RISK AND REVIEW TOOLS HAVE TO BE BUILT FOR
PERFORMANCE AND REVENUE TRACKING
• ALLERGY AND MEDICATION RECONCILATION MANDATORY
18. Emergency Recording & Pharmacy
• Coded Drugs to patients
• Orders, Dispensed Drugs all automatically get
transcribed with time and to patient order sheet
• Allergy Alerter
• Pharmacist Instructor Reminder and Reconciler
• Dose Verifier
• Evidence Based Interphase with EMR System
• In built Drug Interaction Repository Interphase
• Bar coded consumables tracker
20. Conclusion
• Medical Error Rate is Inversely Proportional
to Patient Safety
• Better Patient Safety reflects better care
• Patient Safety is paramount as Patient Life is
all that matters
• Wherever Technology Interphases Protocols
Dominate and Only Standard Operations
Operate Successful Systems
• EXAMPLE: Air Line and Banking Industry
22. EVIDENCE
• A set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers and
clients (comprised of stores, retailers, wholesalers, warehouses, and
manufacturers) so merchandise is produced and distributed at the
right quantities, to the right locations, and at the right time, in order
to minimize system wide costs while satisfying service level requests.
http://www.stanford.edu/~jlmayer
•
Institute of Medicine. “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health
System”. November 1999.
• “Medication Errors Add Time, Money to Hospital Stays”. Oct 7, 2003.
http://www.azcentral.com
• “Resources for Reducing Medication Errors and Improving Quality in
Hospitals”. http://www.mederrors.com
• “Graham, Snowe Legislation Would Reduce Medication Errors”. May
3, 2001. http://www.senate.gov/~graham
23. EVIDENCE
• http://www.siemens.com
• Goldberg, Laurence A. “Closed-loop Medicines Management
System”. Hospital Pharmacy Europe. Nov/Dec 2003.
• http://www.healthmgttech.com/archives/h1102errors.htm
• “Graham, Snowe Legislation Would Reduce Medication Errors”.
May 3, 2001. http://www.senate.gov/~graham
• http://www.mdgmedical.com/ServerRx.html
24. EVIDENCE
• Stacklin, Jeff. “Hospitals to Test Rx System”. NE Ohio
CrainTech, 6/02/03. http://neohio.craintech.com
• Bates D. “Using information technology to reduce
rates of medication errors in hospitals”.
•
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/320/72
37/788/F1
• http://www.healthmgttech.com. Technology’s
impact on reducing medication errors. 11/02.
25. EVIDENCE
• http://www.bridgemedical.com/news_2000_02.
shtml
• Goldberg, Laurence A. “Closed-loop Medicines
Management System”, Hospital Pharmacy
Europe. November/December 2003.
• Dowling, Alan. “Successful Strategies for HCIS
Planning”. Financial Focus, 1987.
26. THANK YOU
Dr Sagar Galwankar
MBBS, DNB, FACEE (INDIA), MD, MPH, Dip. ABEM (USA)
gcsagar@yahoo.com