How Precision Dosing Technology Helps Prevent Adverse Events

Pharmacy Times October 27, 2021
Sirj Goswami, PhD, Michael Neely, MD

Precision dosing technology uses multiple patient-specific factors to individualize medication doses, helping clinicians reduce medication errors that lead to adverse events.

While the eyes of the health care world have understandably been focused on mitigating COVID-19 over the past year, it is important that we remain focused on a critical patient safety issue that can lead to escalating costs and worse outcomes: adverse events (AEs).

Prior to the pandemic, AEs were responsible for 100,000 deaths every year, representing the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. AEs result in an annual increase of approximately $136 billion in the nation’s health care costs, a large percentage of which is avoidable.

The AE problem persists in spite of numerous initiatives,...

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