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A surveillance‐oriented medical record as a source of data for both drug and quality of care surveillance
Author(s) -
Maistrello Italo,
Di Pietro Pasquale,
Renna Salvatore,
Boscarini Marina,
Nobili Alessandro
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.023
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1099-1557
pISSN - 1053-8569
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1557(199903/04)8:2<131::aid-pds397>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - medicine , medical record , medical prescription , medical emergency , quality (philosophy) , drug , intensive care medicine , family medicine , pharmacology , philosophy , epistemology
The medical record for hospitalized patients has been modified in order to orient it towards two types of surveillance: adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and the quality of medical care. The modification consists of an adaptation of the progress notes; the transfer of the information to a special database is facilitated by the use of a simple system of codes that identify and correlate the items necessary for surveillance purposes. During the 6 months of observation of the 1103 pediatric patients included in the study, 35 clinically important suspected ADRs were noted by physicians. For the quality of medical care surveillance, all drug prescriptions were evaluated and areas in which to intervene in order to improve the appropriateness of prescriptions were identified. Quality surveillance was also extended to the monitoring of ‘unexplained’ adverse events for which no particular cause was attributable. We consider it advantageous to carry out these two types of surveillance simultaneously because they require many common items of information. The use of an oriented medical record as a source of data makes it possible to integrate surveillance with everyday ward activities. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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