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Oluwatoba Moninuola1,2, John M Grisham1,2,3, Naveed Farrukh1,2
1Department of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States.
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This study aimed to evaluate the effect of optimizing the ambulatory medication preference list on provider efficiency in medication ordering.Using electronic health record (EHR) vendor data, a multidisciplinary informatics team optimized the general ambulatory medication preference list to better align with providers' ordering patterns. We conducted a pre-postintervention analysis assessing time-in-orders per encounter and number of manual changes per order.Postintervention, average manual changes per order decreased from 4.12 to 3.00 (p < 0.01), and median time spent in the orders activity per encounter decreased from 3.1 to 2.3 minutes (p < 0.01).Optimizing the ambulatory medication preference list reduced time spent and clicks needed by providers when ordering medications. This is relevant to ongoing efforts to address EHR-related burden.
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