Reducing medication errors one patient at a time with Lexi-Comp ONLINE for Dentistry

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Reducing medication errors one patient at a time with Lexi-Comp ONLINE for Dentistry

Every year Americans increasingly take more prescription medicines. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average number of retail prescriptions per person increased from 8.9 in 1997 to 12.6 in 2007.1

With Americans taking more medications, the occurrence of adverse drug events and medication errors is on the rise. In fact, a recent study on medical errors noted that approximately 7,000 people per year will die from medication errors alone, about 16 percent more deaths than the number attributed to work-related injuries.2

The trend is clear. And that means dental professionals today need even better ways to keep up with new medications, detect possible harmful drug interactions and enhance patient safety.

Now, with Lexi-Comp ONLINE for Dentistry, Lexi-Comp’s online dental-specific drug information resource, dentists can stop worrying about dangerous drug interactions and put patient safety as a top priority.

Featuring daily content updates and dental-specific drug monographs, Lexi-Comp ONLINE for Dentistry provides the most current and relevant dental drug information available. As the only product on the market to include a dental-specific, drug-interaction screening tool, Lexi-Comp ONLINE for Dentistry has been proven to help dentists significantly save time checking for interactions and reduce the risk of adverse drug events.

According to Scott Benjamin, DDS, who practices in Sidney, N.Y., and has published more than 100 articles on dental technology in over a dozen publications, Lexi-Comp ONLINE for Dentistry significantly improves a dentist’s ability to enhance patient safety at the point-of-care.

“While I am consulting with a patient, I always have Lexi-Comp ONLINE open on my computer right beside me,” said Benjamin. “I once had a patient who was on 29 different medications. Without Lexi-Comp, I wouldn’t have been able to accurately identify medication-related issues that could have come up and I would have been liable if something had gone wrong.”

Lexi-Comp ONLINE for Dentistry provides instant medication alerts and dental treatment guidelines to ensure dentists use the safest medications for each patient based on his or her individual profile.

It also features Lexi-Comp’s complete dental reference library of information addressing dental conditions, clinical dental procedures and information regarding diagnosis, planning and therapy for dental disciplines.

Lexi-Comp’s dental-specific drug information is available for the latest PDA and Smartphone devices, including iPhone®, iPad™, iPod touch®, Android™, BlackBerry®, Palm webOS® and Windows Mobile®.

You may find more information at www.lexi.com or by calling (330) 650-6506.

References

1. www.kff.org/rxdrugs/upload/ 3057_07.pdf
2. www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?id=137&parentID=70&imID=1

 

 

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