Nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor dosing errors in an outpatient HIV clinic in the electronic medical record era
Authors
Willig, James H.Westfall, Andrew O.
Allison, Jeroan J.
Van Wagoner, Nicholas
Chang, Pei-Wen
Raper, James L
Saag, Michael S.
Mugavero, Michael J.
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Quantitative Health SciencesDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2007-08-09Keywords
AdultAge Factors
Cohort Studies
Didanosine
Drug Combinations
*Drug Prescriptions
Ethnic Groups
Female
HIV Infections
Hospitals, University
Humans
Internship and Residency
Kidney Failure, Chronic
Male
Medical Audit
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
data
Medication Errors
Nurse Practitioners
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Bioinformatics
Biostatistics
Epidemiology
Health Services Research
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Information on antiretroviral dosing errors among health care providers for outpatient human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients is lacking. We evaluated factors associated with nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor dosing errors in a university-based HIV clinic using an electronic medical record. Overall, older age, minority race or ethnicity, and didanosine use were related to such errors. Impaired renal function was more common in older patients and racial or ethnic minorities and, in conjunction with fixed-dose combination drugs, contributed to the higher rates of errors in nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor dosing. Understanding the factors related to nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor dosing errors is an important step in the building of preventive tools.Source
Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Sep 1;45(5):658-61. Epub 2007 Jul 13. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1086/520653Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/47693PubMed ID
17683005Related Resources
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