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Improving prescribing using a rule based prescribing system.

C Anton1, P G Nightingale, D Adu

  • 1West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting, City Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK. christopher.anton@swbh.nhs.uk

Quality & Safety in Health Care
|June 4, 2004
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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Clinical Pharmacy
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Computerised prescribing systems offer potential to improve medication safety.
  • Understanding how user experience influences system effectiveness is crucial for implementation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the impact of experience with a computerised rule-based prescribing system on doctors' prescribing behavior.
  • To assess changes in prescribing habits among both new and experienced users.

Main Methods:

  • A prospective observational study was conducted on a renal unit in a teaching hospital.
  • Prescribing data from 103 users (42 doctors) over two months were analyzed.
  • Key metrics included warning messages generated and overridden, comparing new vs. experienced users and different doctor grades.

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Main Results:

  • The system generated 15,853 messages, with 6,592 indicating potential errors.
  • New users generated fewer warning messages after three weeks (0.81 to 0.42 per prescription, p=0.03).
  • Experienced doctors were less likely to generate warnings but more likely to override them; senior doctors more frequently disregarded warnings.

Conclusions:

  • Doctor prescribing behavior improves with experience using computerised systems, evidenced by fewer generated warning messages.
  • While experience enhances prescribing, senior clinicians may rely more on clinical judgment to override system alerts.
  • Further research should explore optimizing the balance between system guidance and clinical autonomy.