Patient Safety & Quality Improvement USMLE Step 1 Practice Question
A hospital implements a new electronic health record system. In the first month, the rate of medication errors increases by 30%. An investigation reveals that most errors occur when physicians copy and paste medication lists from previous encounters without verifying current medications. Which of the following quality improvement strategies would most effectively address this problem?
Answer choices
- AMandate that all physicians complete EHR training annually
- BSend monthly reports of medication error rates to each physician
- CImplement a forced medication reconciliation step before order entryCorrect answer
- DHire additional pharmacists to review all orders
- ERestrict copy-paste functionality entirely in the EHR
- FIncrease the frequency of medication error audits from monthly to weekly intervals
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