Computerized prescriber order entry-related patient safety reports: analysis of 2522 medication errors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine medication errors potentially related to computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) and refine a previously published taxonomy to classify them.

Materials and methods

We reviewed all patient safety medication reports that occurred in the medication ordering phase from 6 sites participating in a United States Food and Drug Administration-sponsored project examining CPOE safety. Two pharmacists independently reviewed each report to confirm whether the error occurred in the ordering/prescribing phase and was related to CPOE. For those related to CPOE, we assessed whether CPOE facilitated (actively contributed to) the error or failed to prevent the error (did not directly cause it, but optimal systems could have potentially prevented it). A previously develo

SUBMITTER: Amato MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7651942 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature