NCT00287274

Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Prescription Errors in the Intensive Care Unit: a Controlled Cross-Sectional Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (planned)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Device: computerized physician order entry. We wanted to investigate if the introduction of a computerized intensive care unit system reduced the incidence and severity of medication prescription errors (MPEs). A prospective trial was conducted during 5 weeks in a paper-based unit versus a computerized unit. The registration of different classes of MPEs was done by a clinical pharmacist. An independent panel evaluated the severity of MPEs.

Conditions

• Medication Errors
• Patient Safety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	computerized physician order entry

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-03-01
• Completion: 2004-04-01
• First posted: 2006-02-06
• Last updated: 2007-12-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium