Electronic Prescribing Reduced Prescribing Errors in a Pediatric Renal Outpatient Clinic - 07/03/14

Doi : 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.09.046

Yogini Hariprasad Jani, MSc ^a,^b,^{^{1
Y.J. receives funding for a PhD studentship from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, First Databank Europe Ltd, and JAC Computer Systems Ltd. These companies did not contribute to study design; the collection, analysis or interpretation of the data; or writing the manuscript or the decision to submit it for publication.},}^⁎ , Maisoon Abdullah Ghaleb, PhD ^b, Stephen D. Marks, FRCPCH ^c, Judith Cope, MSc ^a,^c, Nick Barber, PhD ^b, Ian Chi Kei Wong, PhD ^a,^b,^{^{2
I.W. has received funding from the UK Medical Research Council and UK Department of Health in the research of medication errors and the use of technology in their reduction.}}
^a Centre for Pediatric Pharmacy Research, The School of Pharmacy, University of London and the Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
^b Department of Practice and Policy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK
^c Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK.

Reprint requests: Yogini Jani, Centre for Pediatric Pharmacy Research, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, Mezzanine, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JP, UK.

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Objective

To assess the effect of an electronic prescribing (EP) system on the incidence and type of prescribing errors and the number of error-free visits.

Study design

This was a before-and-after study conducted in a nephrology outpatient clinic at an acute tertiary care pediatric hospital.

Results

A total of 520 patients had 2242 items prescribed on 1141 prescriptions during the study period. The overall prescribing error rate was 77.4% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 75.3% to 79.4%) for handwritten items and 4.8% (95% CI = 3.4% to 6.7%) with EP. Before EP, 1153 (73.3%; 95% CI = 71.1% to 75.4%) items were missing essential information, and 194 (12.3%; 95% CI = 10.8% to 14%) were judged illegible. After EP, only 9 (1.4%; 95% CI = 0.7% to 2.6%) items were missing essential information, and illegibility errors were eliminated. The number of patient visits that were error-free increased from 21% to 90% (69% difference; 95% CI = 64% to 73.4%) after the implementation of EP.

Conclusions

There was a high incidence of errors using handwritten prescriptions in the outpatient setting, with an overall error rate of 77.4%. EP significantly reduced errors related to completeness of prescriptions and eliminated legibility related errors.

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