Understanding the nature of medication errors in an ICU with a computerized physician order entry system.

We investigated incidence rates to understand the nature of medication errors potentially introduced by utilizing a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system in the three clinical phases of the medication process: prescription, administration, and documentation.Overt observations and chart re...

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Main Authors: Insook Cho, Hyeok Park, Youn Jeong Choi, Mi Heui Hwang, David W Bates
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4272266?pdf=render