4. Approximately 64 percent of the hospitals fully met Leapfrog's CPOE standard, meaning the system alerts physicians to at least half of the most common, serious prescribing errors, and at least 75 ...

Computerized prescriber order entry systems and pharmacy systems are the most commonly reported factors contributing to medication errors in Pennsylvania healthcare facilities, data shows. Although ...

Factors associated with decision making for use of adjuvant chemotherapy (AT) in referred patients (pts) with resected high-risk colon cancer (CC). Background: CPOE ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. More than four months after it originally was published, a March 9 Journal of ...

Like anyone else, if physicians are given the chance to record things in their own words, the way they do it will vary widely. Unfortunately, when they do this within a computerized physician order ...

The Institute of Medicine recently recommended that hospitals adopt computerized prescriber-order-entry (CPOE) systems with medication clinical decision support. [1] In response to this recommendation ...

Purpose: The potential benefits and problems associated with computerized prescriber-order-entry (CPOE) systems were studied. Methods. A national voluntary medication error-reporting database, Medmarx ...

Background: Errors involving medication use are common. Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) can improve prescribing practices. Few studies have examined the effect of CPOE in combination with ...

A few weeks ago I toured a hospital that had recently adopted computerized physician order entry (CPOE). We visited a patient room on the Med-Surge floor, where a nurse explained what happens in an ...

Computerized prescriber order entry systems and pharmacy systems are the most commonly reported factors contributing to medication errors in Pennsylvania healthcare facilities, data shows. Although ...