Institutional Measures

Reducing Adverse Drug Events

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center tracks specific measures related reducing adverse drug events.

You can download the operational definition of each measure in portable document format (.pdf) below:

Strategic Improvement Measures for Reducing Adverse Drug Events (ADEs)
Number of days between administration of narcotic reversal agents Percent of electronic ordering system overrides per month Number of opiate adverse drug events per 1000 doses

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