Characteristics of pharmacist's interventions triggered by prescribing errors related to computerised physician order entry in French hospitals: a cross-sectional observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Computerised physician order entry (CPOE) systems facilitate the review of medication orders by pharmacists. Reports have emerged that show conception flaws or the misuse of CPOE systems generate prescribing errors. We aimed to characterise pharmacist interventions (PIs) triggered by prescribing errors identified as system-related errors (PISREs) in French hospitals.

Design

This was a cross-sectional observational study based on PIs prospectively documented in the Act-IP observatory database from January 2014 to December 2018.

Setting

PISREs from 319 French computerised healthcare facilities were analysed.

Participants

Among the 319 French hospitals, 232 (72.7%) performed SRE interventions, involving 652 (51%) pharmacists.

Results

Among the 33

SUBMITTER: Videau M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8506887 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature