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STUDY

Antimicrobial prescription errors in hospitalized children: role of antimicrobial stewardship program in detection and intervention.

Di Pentima MC, Chan S, Eppes SC, Klein JD. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2009;53:715-723e1.

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Pharmacists' interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: an observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital.

Abdel-Qader DH, Harper L, Cantrill JA, Tully MP. Drug Saf. 2010;33:1027-1044.

STUDY

The impact of a closed-loop electronic prescribing and administration system on prescribing errors, administration errors and staff time: a before-and-after study.

Franklin BD, O'Grady K, Donyai P, Jacklin A, Barber N. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:279-284.

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Using an enhanced oral chemotherapy computerized provider order entry system to reduce prescribing errors and improve safety.

Collins CM, Elsaid KA. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:36-43.

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Electronic prescribing in an ambulatory care setting: a cluster randomized trial.

Dainty KN, Adhikari NK, Kiss A, Quan S, Zwarenstein M. J Eval Clin Pract. 2012;18:761-767.

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Impact of a computerized physician order entry system on compliance with prescription accuracy requirements.

Mir C, Gadri A, Zelger GL, Pichon R, Pannatier A. Pharm World Sci. 2009;31:596-602.

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Medication errors with electronic prescribing (eP): two views of the same picture.

Savage I, Cornford T, Klecun E, Barber N, Clifford S, Franklin BD. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010;10:135.

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Computerized physician order entry of injectable antineoplastic drugs: an epidemiologic study of prescribing medication errors.

Nerich V, Limat S, Demarchi M, et al. Int J Med Inform. 2010;79:699-706.

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The influence that electronic prescribing has on medication errors and preventable adverse drug events: an interrupted time-series study.

van Doormaal JE, van den Bemt PMLA, Zaal RJ, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009;16:816-825.

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Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error?

Coleman JJ, Hemming K, Nightingale PG, et al. J R Soc Med. 2011;104:208-218.

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Effect of a weight-based prescribing method within an electronic health record on prescribing errors.

Ginzburg R, Barr WB, Harris M, Munshi S. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66:2037-2041.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Electronic prescribing in pediatrics: toward safer and more effective medication management.

Council on Clinical Information Technology Executive Committee. Pediatrics. 2013;131:824-826.

STUDY

Does the implementation of an electronic prescribing system create unintended medication errors? A study of the sociotechnical context through the analysis of reported medication incidents.

Redwood S, Rajakumar A, Hodson J, Coleman JJ. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2011;11:29.

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The relationship between computerized physician order entry and pediatric adverse drug events: a nested matched case-control study.

Yu F, Salas M, Kim YI, Menachemi N. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2009;18:751-755.

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Preventing potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older patients with a computerized provider order entry warning system.

Mattison MLP, Afonso KA, Ngo LH, Mukamal KJ. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1331-1336.

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Time-dependent drug–drug interaction alerts in care provider order entry: software may inhibit medication error reductions.

van der Sijs H, Lammers L, van den Tweel A, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009;16:864-868.

STUDY

High incidence of medication documentation errors in a Swiss university hospital due to the handwritten prescription process.

Hartel MJ, Staub LP, Röder C, Eggli S. BMC Health Serv Res. 2011;11:199.

STUDY

Electronic prescribing within an electronic health record reduces ambulatory prescribing errors.

Abramson EL, Barrón Y, Quaresimo J, Kaushal R. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:470-478.

STUDY

Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administration.

Poon EG, Keohane CA, Yoon CS, et al. N Engl J Med. 2010;362:1698-1707.

REVIEW

Prescribing errors in hospital practice.

Tully MP. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2012;74:668-675.

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