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 ...

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 ...

California's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is the first hospital nationwide to find evidence that a computerized physician order entry system can reduce medical errors and save lives, according ...

Systemic treatment (ST) computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) and preprinted orders (PPO) are proven to reduce errors. There is no known guidance in oncology to facilitate high-quality, accurate ...

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 ...