An assessment of Health Care Information and Management Systems Society and Leapfrog data on computerized provider order entry.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the internal consistency and agreement between the Health Care Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Leapfrog computerized provider order entry (CPOE) data.

Data sources

Secondary hospital data collected by HIMSS Analytics, the Leapfrog Group, and the American Hospital Association from 2005 to 2007.

Study design

Dichotomous measures of full CPOE status were created for the HIMSS and Leapfrog datasets in each year. We assessed internal consistency by calculating the percent of full adopters in a given year that report full CPOE status in subsequent years. We assessed the level of agreement between the two datasets by calculating the κ statistic and McNemar's test. We examined responsiveness by assessing the change in full CPOE s

SUBMITTER: Diana ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3207193 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature