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Kathryn Went1, Patricia Antoniewicz, Deborah A Corner
1School of Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. kwent@computing.dundee.ac.uk
Rationale, Aims And Objectives:
In this study, the aim was to investigate if an electronic prescribing system designed specifically to reduce errors would lead to fewer errors in prescribing medicines in a secondary care setting.
Method:
The electronic system was compared with paper prescription charts on 16 intensive care patients to assess any change in the number of prescribing errors.
Results:
The overall level of compliance with nationally accepted standards was significantly higher with the electronic system (91.67%) compared with the paper system (46.73%). Electronically generated prescriptions were found to contain significantly fewer deviations (28 in 329 prescriptions, 8.5%) than the written prescriptions (208 in 408 prescriptions, 51%).
Conclusion:
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to work on the creation of a system designed to minimize the risk of error has resulted in a favoured system that significantly reduces the number of errors made.
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