scholarly journals Evaluation of medication errors via a computerized physician order entry system in an inpatient renal transplant unit

2011 ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marfo ◽  
Garcia ◽  
Khalique ◽  
Berger ◽  
Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Transplant ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Computerized Physician Order Entry ◽  
Order Entry ◽  
Physician Order Entry

Misidentification of Alphanumeric Characters Confusion between Sufenta and Sublimaze Fortune 500 Company Benefit Plans Adopting Computerized Physician Order Entry Standards

2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-236
Author(s):  
Michael R. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Medication Errors ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Fortune 500 ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Inservice Training ◽  
Computerized Physician Order Entry ◽  
Order Entry ◽  
Safe Medication ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Physician Order Entry

These medication errors have occurred in health care facilities at least once. They will happen again—perhaps where you work. Through education and alertness of personnel and procedural safeguards, they can be avoided. You should consider publishing accounts of errors in your newsletters and/or presenting them in your inservice training programs. Your assistance is required to continue this feature. The reports described here were received through the USP Medication Errors Reporting Program, which is presented in cooperation with the Institute of Safe Medication Practices. If you have encountered medication errors and would like to report them, you may call USP toll-free, 24 hours a day, at 1-800-233-7767 (1-800-23-ERROR). Any reports published by ISMP will be anonymous. Comments are also invited; the writer's names will be published if desired. ISMP may be contacted at the address shown below.

scholarly journals Computerized Physician Order Entry System: A Review on Reduction of Medication Errors

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Imran Qureshi ◽  
Mirza Tasawer Baig ◽  
Uzma Shahid ◽  
Javeria Muhammad Arif ◽  
Aisha Jabeen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Computerized Physician Order Entry ◽  
Order Entry ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
System A ◽  
Cochrane Database ◽  
Physician Order Entry

The advancement of computerized physician order entry system has delivered a fast social move in the realm of medication, introducing both new difficulties just as open doors for improving medicinal services. As clinicians work to adjust to the progressions forced by the CPOE, identification of best practices are required for CPOE’s effective implementation. Using the references of published articles on CPOE’s effective implementation and obstacles in its adherence in hospitals, this article aims to identify best practices and useful tools in effective implementation of CPOE. This review is based on a search of Medline, the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, and citation lists of relevant publications. Subject heading and key words used include construction and working of CPOE, CPOE related errors, impact of CPOE on medication errors and obstacles in CPOE effective implementation. Only articles in English were included.

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