Improving Safety By Computerizing Outpatient Prescribing

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Conditions studied: Impact of Electronic Prescribing on Medication Safety

In brief

Patient safety is at the forefront of critical issues in health care. Medications are the single most frequent cause of adverse events, and in the inpatient setting adverse drug events (ADEs) are common, expensive, injurious to patients, and often preventable. Relatively little, however, is known about the frequency of ADEs in the ambulatory setting, how to monitor for outpatient ADEs, or on the impact of prevention strategies such as computerization of prescribing supplemented by decision-support.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00235027

Run by

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

People needed

701

Starts

2000-08-01

Expected to finish

2010-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-07-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Clinics not using electronic medical records

Where it is running

• Regenstrief/Indiana University — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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