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Background:

  • Electronic prescribing systems are crucial for medication safety.
  • Accurate indication documentation is essential for clinical decision-making and audit.
  • Current free-text fields in electronic prescribing systems often lack structured data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the impact of a mandatory indication field in an electronic prescribing system on free-text documentation.
  • To assess changes in prescriber behavior regarding medication indication entries.
  • To develop a visualization tool for monitoring indication provision.

Main Methods:

  • The indication field was made compulsory for seven antibacterial medicines.
  • Prescription data were analyzed for four weeks pre- and post-intervention.
  • Free text in the indication field was manually categorized as 'indication present', 'other text', 'rubbish text', or 'blank'.
  • An interactive report was developed to visualize indication data.

Main Results:

  • Indication provision increased significantly from 10.6% to 72.4% (p<0.01) after the intervention.
  • 'Other text' entries increased from 7.6% to 25.1% (p<0.01).
  • 'Rubbish text' entries showed a minimal increase from 0.0% to 0.6% (p<0.01).

Conclusions:

  • Implementing a compulsory indication field substantially improves the documentation of medication indications.
  • The intervention resulted in a significant increase in useful indication data with minimal adverse impact on text quality.
  • An interactive reporting tool can support ongoing audit and quality improvement initiatives in electronic prescribing.