Study: CPOE can cut prescribing errors 57 percent

A new study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has concluded that the use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems could prevent up to 57 percent of prescribing errors. 

The study, which was done by researchers from the American Academy of Family Physicians, examined medication-error reports from two previous studies. They included a 20-week research project collecting medication-error reports from 42 family practice physicians, and another from a 10-week project collecting error reports from 401 clinicians.

Researchers found 194 medication errors, of which 70 percent were prescribing errors. Of those, 59 percent reached patients, but none resulted in death or permanent harm to those patients.

To learn more about these errors:
- read this Modern Healthcare piece (reg. req.)

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