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C Gimenez1, S de Matos Lima1, D Luna1
1Department of Biomedical Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
Chemotherapy drugs are one of the most common causes of serious and fatal medication errors, especially during prescribing, where computerized physician order entry (CPOE) take on importance. This study proposes the description of the post-implementation status of a CPOE in a highly specialized hospital between January and June 2018, among patients older than 18 years. Results: a total of 8835 protocols were indicated using the specific CPOE (93% use rate over all protocols) 91% completed the administration, 1.2% were rejected by pharmacy, and 6.8% was canceled. The most frequent cause of rejection by pharmacy and cancellation by oncologist was an inadequate dose. Most of the protocols indicated using the CPOE implemented, with a reject by pharmacy rate of 1.2%, indicates the utility of CPOE as an error prevention strategy.
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