Risks to patient safety associated with implementation of electronic applications for medication management in ambulatory care--a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective was to find evidence to substantiate assertions that electronic applications for medication management in ambulatory care (electronic prescribing, clinical decision support (CDSS), electronic health record, and computer generated paper prescriptions), while intended to reduce prescribing errors, can themselves result in errors that might harm patients or increase risks to patient safety.

Methods

Because a scoping search for adverse events in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) yielded few relevant results, we systematically searched nine databases, including MEDLINE, EMBASE, and The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews for systematic reviews and studies of a wide variety of designs that reported on implementation of the interventions. Studies that

SUBMITTER: Carling CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3913838 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature