Use of Computerized Provider Order Entry Events for Postoperative Complication Surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Conventional approaches for tracking postoperative adverse events requires manual medical record review, thus limiting the scalability of such efforts.

Objective

To determine if a surveillance system using computerized provider order entry (CPOE) events for selected medications as well as laboratory, microbiologic, and radiologic orders can decrease the manual medical record review burden for surveillance of postoperative complications.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study reviewed the medical records of 21 775 patients who underwent surgical procedures at a university-based tertiary referral center (University of Utah, Salt Lake City) from July 1, 2007, to August 31, 2017. Patients were included if their case was selected for review by a sur

SUBMITTER: Bucher BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6484794 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature