NCT04193839

Reducing Errors In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Reducing Errors In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The SAPHET-i Study: Secure, Automated, Functional, High-Tech Therapeutic Approach for iNFANTS

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Fondazione Poliambulanza Istituto Ospedaliero · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a monocentric prospective pre and post-intervention study, aiming at analyzing the efficacy of the Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) plus Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) as compared to paper order entry in reducing medication erros (MEs) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Detailed description

Medication errors are a burden to the health care system. The neonatal population, in particular the infants admitted to the NICU, are at higher risk of MEs as compared to the adult and pediatric population. Moreover adverse events (ADEs) occur more frequently and may be particularly severe in neonates. Several strategies have been tried in order to decrease the incidence of MEs in the NICU. Among these, some studies investigated the effectiveness of CPOE in reducing MEs in hospitalised patients. However, results have been inconsistent. So far, no study investigated the association of CPOE + BCMA in neonates. The investigators designed a monocentric prospective pre and post-intervention observational study to investigate the efficacy of the CPOE plus BCMA as compared to paper order entry in reducing MEs in the NICU population.

Conditions

• Medication Errors and Other Product Use Errors and Issues
• Adverse Drug Event

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) plus Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA)	Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) refers to the process of providers entering and sending treatment instructions - including medication, laboratory, and radiology orders - via a computer application rather than paper, fax, or telephone. The bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) is a system that consists of a bar code reader, a portable or desktop computer with wireless connection, a computer server, and some software. Before the administration of medications to the patients the patient unique barcode identification is scanned in order to verify the patient's identity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-01
• Primary completion: 2021-05-01
• Completion: 2021-06-01
• First posted: 2019-12-10
• Last updated: 2019-12-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy