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

August 18, 2010

Mattison MLP, Afonso KA, Ngo LH, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(15):1331-6.

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Implementation of targeted alerts within a computerized provider order entry system successfully reduced the prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications to geriatric patients, in this study conducted at a tertiary care academic medical center.

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