NCT00235027

Improving Safety By Computerizing Outpatient Prescribing

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 701 (actual)
• Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Patient safety is at the forefront of critical issues in health care. Medications are the single most frequent cause of adverse events, and in the inpatient setting adverse drug events (ADEs) are common, expensive, injurious to patients, and often preventable. Relatively little, however, is known about the frequency of ADEs in the ambulatory setting, how to monitor for outpatient ADEs, or on the impact of prevention strategies such as computerization of prescribing supplemented by decision-support.

Detailed description

Specific Aim 1: Increase routine identification of outpatient adverse drug events (ADEs) through development of a computerized ADE detection monitor. Specific Aim 2: Use basic computerized outpatient prescribing to reduce preventable ADEs in a diverse array of outpatient settings. Specific Aim 3: Use advanced decision-support within computerized prescribing to reduce the frequency of preventable ADEs, medication errors, and potential ADEs.

Conditions

• Impact of Electronic Prescribing on Medication Safety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Adverse Drug Event Monitoring	The intervention in this study is the presentation of medication safety alerts in the electronic medical record to improve patient outcomes and safety.

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-08-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2005-10-10
• Last updated: 2015-07-21

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States