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 ...

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

Discussion While a number of new technologies have been recommended in an effort to reduce medical errors and ADEs, we found few studies that confirmed such an association. Originally described in ...

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 ...

Human error, poorly designed screens and a lack of warnings led to the mistake, which resulted in the patient receiving more than three times the maximum allowed dose of potassium. The CPOE was one ...

A hospital-wide computerized system that allows physicians and nurses to order prescriptions and tests reduces the time it takes to get medications to patients and cuts resistance to one common ...

Babies in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) at Brigham and Women's Hospital are getting faster and more efficient care thanks to technology. Doctors there are using an enhanced computerized ...