Telemedicine vs Telephone Consultations and Medication Prescribing Errors Among Referring Physicians: A Cluster Randomized Crossover Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Critically ill children presenting to emergency departments (EDs) in non-children's hospitals are at high risk for experiencing medical errors, including medication errors. Video telemedicine consultations with pediatric specialists have the potential to reduce the risk of medication errors beyond the current standard of care, telephone consultations.

Objective

To compare the rates of ED physician-related medication errors among critically ill children randomized to receive either video telemedicine or telephone consultations.

Design, setting, and participants

This cluster randomized, unbalanced crossover trial was conducted at 15 community EDs in northern California between September 2014 and March 2018. Analyses were conducted from May 2022 to January 202

SUBMITTER: Marcin JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10905304 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature