Abstract
BACKGROUND: Medication errors are the major responsible for adverse events in hospitals. Although computerized prescription systems are widely considered the best option to decrease the medication errors, this belief is not evidence based since only few studies assessed their effectiveness. AIM: The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness on reducing medication errors of the manual prescription system (drugs transcribed in the clinical records) with a computerized system. METHOD: Drugs prescriptions (manual and electronic) were retrospectively analyzed to identify medication errors. A medication error is the lack of clarity and completedness of the prescription. RESULTS: 1587 prescriptions were analyzed with the manual prescription system (phase 1), 1500 with the provisional electronic system (phase 2) and 1034 with the final one (phase 3). Between phase 1 and 2 an increase of incomplete prescriptions for dose (+17%) and lack of completedness of prescription (+49%) was observed. After some modifications a decrease of "errors" was observed, respectively -39% and -23.5% (p
| Original language | Italian |
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| Pages (from-to) | 92-98 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Assistenza infermieristica e ricerca : AIR |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2007 |
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La gestione informatizzata delle prescrizioni terapeutiche riduce gli errori di terapia? Confronto tra un sistema informatizzato e il sistema tradizionale. / Giurdanella, Pietro; Di Denia, Patrizio.
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T1 - La gestione informatizzata delle prescrizioni terapeutiche riduce gli errori di terapia? Confronto tra un sistema informatizzato e il sistema tradizionale.
AU - Giurdanella, Pietro
AU - Di Denia, Patrizio
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - BACKGROUND: Medication errors are the major responsible for adverse events in hospitals. Although computerized prescription systems are widely considered the best option to decrease the medication errors, this belief is not evidence based since only few studies assessed their effectiveness. AIM: The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness on reducing medication errors of the manual prescription system (drugs transcribed in the clinical records) with a computerized system. METHOD: Drugs prescriptions (manual and electronic) were retrospectively analyzed to identify medication errors. A medication error is the lack of clarity and completedness of the prescription. RESULTS: 1587 prescriptions were analyzed with the manual prescription system (phase 1), 1500 with the provisional electronic system (phase 2) and 1034 with the final one (phase 3). Between phase 1 and 2 an increase of incomplete prescriptions for dose (+17%) and lack of completedness of prescription (+49%) was observed. After some modifications a decrease of "errors" was observed, respectively -39% and -23.5% (p
AB - BACKGROUND: Medication errors are the major responsible for adverse events in hospitals. Although computerized prescription systems are widely considered the best option to decrease the medication errors, this belief is not evidence based since only few studies assessed their effectiveness. AIM: The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness on reducing medication errors of the manual prescription system (drugs transcribed in the clinical records) with a computerized system. METHOD: Drugs prescriptions (manual and electronic) were retrospectively analyzed to identify medication errors. A medication error is the lack of clarity and completedness of the prescription. RESULTS: 1587 prescriptions were analyzed with the manual prescription system (phase 1), 1500 with the provisional electronic system (phase 2) and 1034 with the final one (phase 3). Between phase 1 and 2 an increase of incomplete prescriptions for dose (+17%) and lack of completedness of prescription (+49%) was observed. After some modifications a decrease of "errors" was observed, respectively -39% and -23.5% (p
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SN - 1592-5986
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