Identifying and Quantifying Medication Errors: Evaluation of Rapidly Discontinued Medication Orders Submitted to a Computerized Physician Order Entry System

All methods of identifying medication prescribing errors are fraught with inaccuracies and systematic bias. A systematic, efficient, and inexpensive way of measuring and quantifying prescribing errors would be a useful step for reducing them. We ask if rapid discontinuations of prescription-orders–w...

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Main Authors: Koppel, Ross, Leonard, Charles E., Localio, A. Russell, Cohen, Abigail, Auten, Ruthann, Strom, Brian L.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Medical Informatics Association 2008
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442267/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18436910
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1197/jamia.M2549
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