Psychology (PSYC 4505)
Goal:
To determine the effects of a personal health record (PHR)-linked medications module on medication accuracy and safety.
Problem Formulated:
Revolved around the fact that medication-related morbidity and mortality is estimated to result in $76 billion dollars in total costs annually. One major contributor to such problem is adverse drug events (ADE). Further, there are problems in the area of communication between patients and doctors as per appropriate medication regimens.
Hypothesis:
A Personal Health Record (PHR) module (linked to an ambulatory electronic health record-EHR) would reduce discrepancies between patient-reported and EHR-documented medication regimens and reduce potential and preventable/ameliorable ADEs.
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