The utility of adding retrospective medication profiling to computerized provider order entry in an ambulatory care population.

Peter A. Glassman; Pamela Belperio; Andrew Lanto; Barbara Simon; Robert Valuck; Jeffrey Sayers; Martin Lee

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The utility of adding retrospective medication profiling to computerized provider order entry in an ambulatory care population.

May 23, 2007

Glassman PA, Belperio P, Lanto A, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007;14(4):424-31.

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Investigators reviewed outpatient data for potential drug-drug and drug-disease interactions to build a medication profiling program into their computerized prescribing system. They found that combining the two technologies did not augment medication safety.

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