Computerized Prescriber Order Entry and Opportunities for Medication Errors
Computerized Prescriber Order Entry and Opportunities for Medication Errors is a scholarly work, published in 2013 in ''Journal of Pharmacy Practice''. The main subjects of the publication include alarm fatigue, incidence, medical error, health information technology, medicine, emergency medicine, Order management system, odds ratio, confidence interval, health care, medical emergency, patient safety, and computerized physician order entry. Pre- and post-CPOE implementation incidence of error opportunity was compared by evaluating 500 orders before and after implementation using 18 predefined criteria. Results: A total of 14 913 opportunities for error (OE) existed in the authors' sample of 1000 medication orders.