Computerised prescribing and its impact on medication-error
rates
Keith Farrar and Ann Slee summarise some of the
published evidence for using electronic prescribing and medicines
administration in hospitals.
keywords: electronic prescribing and medicines administration,
clinical decision support, adverse drug events.
abstract
There is growing awareness of the occurrence of medical errors,
and the publication of the Chief Medical Officer’s report Organisation
with a Memory and the establishment of the National Patient
Safety Agency underline the government’s willingness to tackle
this issue. This article, which summarises the evidence from a
series of studies and review articles, presents some of the
published evidence that the use of computerised clinical systems can
reduce the incidence of medication-related errors.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2003; 20(4): 28–30. |
