The impact of transition to a digital hospital on medication errors (TIME study).

Teyl Engstrom; Elizabeth McCourt; Martin Canning; Katharine Dekker; Panteha Voussoughi; Oliver Bennett; Angela North; Jason D Pole; Peter J Donovan; Clair Sullivan

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The impact of transition to a digital hospital on medication errors (TIME study).

August 16, 2023

Engstrom T, McCourt E, Canning M, et al. NPJ Digit Med. 2023;6(1):133.

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Computerized provider order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS), and other technologies can reduce prescribing errors, but their initial implementation may present new errors. This study reports prescribing errors before and after transition to digital hospital records. Results show significant decreases in prescribing errors after transition, but also identified new problems, such as alert fatigue, that needed additional attention to remediate.

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