Does potential benefit of electronic pharmacy claim data to prevent medication history errors and resultant inpatient order errors?
When current SEPCD was available for older adult patients on complex medication regimens, it had substantial potential to prevent AMH errors and resultant inpatient order errors, with greater potential to prevent more severe errors. Further study is needed to measure the benefit of SEPCD in actual use at hospital admission.
Medicare data seem useful for population-based stroke research; however, performance characteristics depend on the definition selected.