Implementation of rules based computerised bedside prescribing and administration: intervention study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To implement and assess a rules based computerised prescribing system with the aim of improving the safety of prescriptions and the administration of drugs.

Design

Analysis of performance of computerised system plus questionnaire survey of users.

Setting

64 bed renal unit in a teaching hospital.

Intervention

: Introduction of the system into routine clinical use.

Main outcome measures

Number of attempted prescriptions cancelled by the system; proportion of warning messages overridden; users' comparisons of the system with conventional procedures.

Results

Between October 1998 and August 1999 the system cancelled 58 (0.07%) out of 87 789 prescriptions on the grounds of clinical safety. In addition, 427 (57%) attempted prescriptions genera

SUBMITTER: Nightingale PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27317 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature