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The Absence Of A Drug-Diseаse Interаctiоn Alert Leаds Tо A Child’s DeathActual Case frоm May 21, 2015Problem: In 2015, we learned about the tragic death of a 12-year-old child with congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) after a physician unknowingly prescribed a medication that prolongs the QT interval and increases the risk of torsades de pointes (torsades), even when taken as directed. The young girl was evaluated in a health-system outpatient clinic and found to have bilateral otitis media and sinusitis. The clinic physician sent an electronic prescription to the health system’s outpatient pharmacy for a ZITHROMAX (azithromycin) Z-PAK. This antibiotic has been associated with prolongation of the QT interval and may itself increase cardiovascular death, especially in patients with a high baseline risk of cardiovascular disease. After taking the medication for 4 days, the child developed palpitations, dizziness, nausea, and transient fainting spells. The child was taken by ambulance to the health system’s emergency department, where cardiac monitoring showed complete atrioventricular (AV) block associated with QT prolongation. The child quickly developed torsades, and her cardiac rhythm deteriorated to ventricular fibrillation. The young girl died despite all efforts to save her.Although the clinic physician had generated the prescription for azithromycin using the health system’s electronic health record (EHR) prescribing system, it did not alert the physician to the risks associated with prescribing this drug for a patient with congenital LQTS. Likewise, the ambulatory pharmacy computer system, which was also maintained by the health system, did not alert the pharmacist to the risk of further QT prolongation or torsades in patients with congenital LQTS when dispensing this antibiotic. There are several reasons for these failures in an otherwise robust alert system.Drug-disease alerts disabled. To prevent alarm fatigue, the health system had turned off the drug-disease interaction alerts that were available in the prescriber order entry and ambulatory pharmacy computer systems. The health system’s drug information vendor allowed the drug-disease interactions to be filtered according to severity level. The most restrictive level included medications that were contraindicated given specific disease states. When restricting the drug-disease alerts to those rated as contraindicated, the health system felt up to 90% of the alerts provided false positive or clinically insignificant results.Absence of system alerts. Even if the drug-disease interaction alerts had been turned on to display contraindicated interactions, the system still would not have alerted the physician and pharmacist to the lethal interaction. In the official azithromycin package insert, information about the interaction appears in the warnings and precautions sections, not under contraindications. The warning about prolongation of the QT interval and torsades suggests considering this risk in patients with certain cardiovascular conditions, including known QT prolongation. However, the health system’s drug information database employed with the prescriber order entry system and pharmacy computer classified the importance of this interaction as not recommended, which was below the contraindicated and extreme caution severity levels. According to the health system, some other medications that prolong the QT interval (e.g., ondansetron) do not cause an alert at all at any severity level. The health system is following up with its EHR and drug information vendors to determine the cause, which could be related to how disease conditions are coded. Unlinked comorbid condition. Even if the drug-disease interaction alerts had been turned on and were functional for azithromycin and congenital LQTS in the ambulatory pharmacy system, the pharmacist would not have been alerted to the interaction. This is because the child’s comorbid condition—congenital LQTS—was not documented in the ambulatory pharmacy computer system. The diagnosis had been listed in the child’s EHR, but it was not linked to the pharmacy computer.In this health system, physicians were required to provide an indication when ordering medications. In this case, the physician complied when prescribing azithromycin for the child (otitis media, sinusitis). Although prescriptions had been filled for the child previously at the ambulatory pharmacy, the child’s congenital LQTS was not one of the diagnoses listed in the computer because the child had never taken a specific medication to treat this condition. The pharmacist did not have any reason to seek out additional diagnoses given that the physician had provided an appropriate indication for the azithromycin.Read the above case study and then answer the following in 2-4 sentences for each question: When the health system said that 90% of alerts returned false positives, were they saying that these alerts had a low sensitivity? Explain the rationale for your response. (4 points)What is the most likely cause of this failure and why? (4 points)Identify one standard used nationally by EHRs that would be a key component to effectively remedy this problem? Why is it important? (3 points)This error, which resulted in the patient's death, happened more than 15 years after the key report from the Institute of Medicine "To Err is Human". Identify one of the report's key recommendations that would help avoid a repeat of this event and describe why that recommendation would help. (4 points)
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