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North Carolina/Virginia
Hospital Engagement Network
(NoCVA HEN)
Reducing Adverse Drug Events
Partnership for Patients:
Medication Safety Overview
NoCVA Hospital Engagement Network
Medication Safety Webinar
April 16, 2013
Brian J. Isetts, RPh, PhD, BCPS
NoCVA Medication Safety Webinar
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
• Partnership for Patients Aims
• Magnitude of Drug-related Harms
• Urgent National Call to Action
• Questions to run on:
What is contributing to current results?
What can you do in your hospital to accelerate
improvement?
Reducing Adverse Drug Events
• Over one-third of Hospital Acquired Conditions are
ADEs in the Partnership for Patients focus
• Most significant cause of injury/death in hospitals
• At least 1.5 million preventable ADEs each year
• Office of Inspector General - Report of Nov. 2010
• NEJM (Budnitz) 11/24/2011 – High impact ADEs
• AHRQ Brief #109 – ADE in1.9M hosp stays (2008)
• Joint Commission Standard MM 07.01.03
Medication Safety Focus
• Focus on reducing high impact medication
harms related to anticoagulants, hypoglycemic
agents, and opioids
• Reduce drug-related readmissions to improve
care transitions
• Work closely with medication advisory groups in
the Hospital Engagement Networks (HENs)
An Urgent National Call to Action:
Getting a Little Help from our Friends
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Inventory of federal resources – Sec. Sebelius
Expectations of Partnership for Patients results
Federal Interagency Response to ADEs
External stakeholder engagement in our work
Patient and family engagement in our work
Partnership for Patients resources from the
evaluation and NCD contractors
• ADE Road Map from the Minnesota HEN
A Glimpse of the HEN Response to the
Medication Safety Challenge
• March 1, 2012 - there were 3 HENs and 200
hospitals engaged in medication safety
• April 2nd Webinar framed the challenge and
established a vision for our journey
• July 15th the “gang of 7 HENs” took
responsibility for reducing high-impact harms
• Jan. 9, 2013 - 3,084 hospitals in 24 HENs
engaged in medication safety improvement;
1,493 committed to reporting; 211 sustaining ↓
Anticoagulation Management Service –
Performance Data (Hosp. of Univ. of PA) Data
Value Pre- AIM
Team
Percent of Patients with INR > 4
% of patients with INR >4
9%
8%
7%
6%
5%
4%
3%
2%
1%
0%
Inpatie…
Month
Summary of Progress with
Measurement Examples
• Everybody pulling in the same direction
• Roadmap of Medication Safety Best Practices
• % of Patients on Warfarin with INRs > 5
• % of Blood Glucose readings below 50 mg/dl
• % of Patients on Opioids given Naloxone
• Help the HENs help hospitals
• Using run charts to assess care improvements
in real time at the patient’s bedside
What more can be done?
• What is contributing to successful hospitals?
* CEO/CMO leadership in hospitals to
engage all health team members
* Individual guidance for hospitals in the
science of rapid cycle quality improvement
• What can you do to accelerate progress in your
hospital?