{"id":575,"date":"2020-12-11T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/?p=575"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:32:06","slug":"pharmacy-dispensing-of-electronically-discontinued-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/2020\/12\/11\/pharmacy-dispensing-of-electronically-discontinued-medications\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy dispensing of electronically discontinued medications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-575\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-575-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-575-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-575-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"108\"><strong>Study type<\/strong>\/<strong> Setting<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"174\"><strong>Methods<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><strong>Outcomes<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"266\"><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"108\">Retrospective cohort study<\/p>\n<p>Setting: Ambulatory Care<\/td>\n<td width=\"174\">- To assess the frequency of and potential patient harm associated with pharmacy dispensing of discontinued medications in the ambulatory setting within 12 months - 30,406 adult patients with an electronic discontinuation order<\/td>\n<td width=\"200\">- A large amount of prescriptions electronically canceled in EHRs were still filled at the pharmacy - Among 83,902 targeted medications that were electronically discontinued, 1,218 were subsequently dispensed by the pharmacy<\/td>\n<td width=\"266\">- The dispensing of discontinued medications represents an important ambulatory patient safety concern.\u00a0 - Better communication between providers and pharmacists is needed to improve medication safety<\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">Allen et al. (2012)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/0003-4819-157-10-201211200-00006?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed\" rel=\"\">Link to Full Article<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"5\">Allen AS, Sequist TD. Pharmacy dispensing of electronically discontinued medications. Ann Intern Med. 2012;157:700-5. [PMID: 23165661]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study type\/ Setting Methods Outcomes Recommendations Source Retrospective cohort study Setting: Ambulatory Care &#8211; To assess the frequency of and potential patient harm associated with pharmacy dispensing of discontinued medications in the ambulatory setting within 12 months &#8211; 30,406 adult patients with an electronic discontinuation order &#8211; A large amount of prescriptions electronically canceled in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20,15,10,11],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 22:56:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}