NCT00603070

Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists

Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists to Improve Ambulatory Medication Safety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 130 (actual)
• Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is twofold: 1. to measure the effects of transitioning from one electronic prescribing system to another in the ambulatory setting on medication errors and human-computer interactions 2. to evaluate the impact of electronic transmission of discharge medication lists to the ambulatory setting on medication discrepancies and adverse drug events

Conditions

• Medication Errors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	E-prescribing system	Transition from home-grown to vendor-based ambulatory e-prescribing systems
OTHER	Electronic transmission of medication discharge lists	Patient discharge medication lists will be transmitted upon discharge from their inpatient medical record to their outpatient medical record and their outpatient provider will be notified of this transmission.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2011-03-01
• Completion: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2008-01-28
• Last updated: 2012-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States