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Article: Just what the doctor ordered. Review of the evidence of the impact of computerized physician order entry system on medication errors.(Report)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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BACKGROUND
Medication errors are associated with substantial death and injury (Kohn, Corrigan, and Donaldson 2000). More than half a million patients are injured or die each year in hospitals from adverse drug events (ADEs) (Classen et al. 1997) which may cost up to $5.6 million annually per hospital (Bates et al. 1997). In 1992, 5 percent of hospitalized patients experienced medication errors (Bond, Raehl, and Franke 2001). The rate increased substantially to 24 percent from 1995 to 2000 (LaPointe and Jollis 2003).
Physician ordering and transcription were responsible for 50-61 percent of all medication errors (Bates et al. 1995b; Leape et al. 1995). ...