The hospital responds to actual or potential adverse drug events, significant adverse drug re...

(1)

The hospital develops and implements policies and procedures for reporting transfusion reactions, adverse drug reactions, and errors in administration of drugs. Note: This element of performance is also applicable to sample medications.

(2)

Medication administration errors, adverse drug reactions, and medication incompatibilities, as defined by the hospital, are immediately reported to the attending physician or other licensed practitioner and, as appropriate, to the hospitalwide quality assessment and performance improvement program.

(3)

The hospital has a method (such as using established benchmarks for the size and scope of services provided by the hospital or studies on reporting rates published in peer-reviewed journals) by which to measure the effectiveness of its process for identifying and reporting medication errors and adverse drug reactions to the quality assessment and performance improvement program.