Assessment of Unintentional Duplicate Orders by Emergency Department Clinicians Before and After Implementation of a Visual Aid in the Electronic Health Record Ordering System.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Electronic health records allow teams of clinicians to simultaneously care for patients, but an unintended consequence is the potential for duplicate orders of tests and medications.

Objective

To determine whether a simple visual aid is associated with a reduction in duplicate ordering of tests and medications.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used an interrupted time series model to analyze 184 694 consecutive patients who visited the emergency department (ED) of an academic hospital with 55 000 ED visits annually. Patient visits occurred 1 year before and after each intervention, as follows: for laboratory orders, from August 13, 2012, to August 13, 2014; for medication orders, from February 3, 2013, to February 3, 2015; and for radiolo

SUBMITTER: Horng S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6902748 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature