TY - JOUR
T1 - Reducing prescribing errors
T2 - can a well-designed electronic system help?
AU - Went, Kathryn
AU - Antoniewicz, Patricia
AU - Corner, Deborah A.
AU - Dailly, Stella
AU - Gregor, Peter
AU - Joss, Judith
AU - McIntyre, Fiona B.
AU - McLeod, Shaun
AU - Ricketts, Ian W.
AU - Shearer, Alfred J.
N1 - MEDLINE® is the source for the MeSH terms of this document.
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - Rationale, aims and objectivesIn this study, the aim was to investigate if an electronic prescribing system designed specifically to reduce errors would lead to fewer errors in prescribing medicines in a secondary care setting.MethodThe electronic system was compared with paper prescription charts on 16 intensive care patients to assess any change in the number of prescribing errors.ResultsThe overall level of compliance with nationally accepted standards was significantly higher with the electronic system (91.67%) compared with the paper system (46.73%). Electronically generated prescriptions were found to contain significantly fewer deviations (28 in 329 prescriptions, 8.5%) than the written prescriptions (208 in 408 prescriptions, 51%).ConclusionTaking an interdisciplinary approach to work on the creation of a system designed to minimize the risk of error has resulted in a favoured system that significantly reduces the number of errors made.
AB - Rationale, aims and objectivesIn this study, the aim was to investigate if an electronic prescribing system designed specifically to reduce errors would lead to fewer errors in prescribing medicines in a secondary care setting.MethodThe electronic system was compared with paper prescription charts on 16 intensive care patients to assess any change in the number of prescribing errors.ResultsThe overall level of compliance with nationally accepted standards was significantly higher with the electronic system (91.67%) compared with the paper system (46.73%). Electronically generated prescriptions were found to contain significantly fewer deviations (28 in 329 prescriptions, 8.5%) than the written prescriptions (208 in 408 prescriptions, 51%).ConclusionTaking an interdisciplinary approach to work on the creation of a system designed to minimize the risk of error has resulted in a favoured system that significantly reduces the number of errors made.
KW - intensive care units
KW - medical order entry systems
KW - medication error - prevention and control
KW - user-computer interface
KW - PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY
KW - MEDICATION ERRORS
KW - UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
KW - INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY
KW - CRITICAL-CARE
KW - STAFF
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01159.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01159.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 20102435
SN - 1356-1294
VL - 16
SP - 556
EP - 559
JO - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
JF - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
IS - 3
ER -