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A comparison of medication administrations errors using CPOE orders vs. handwritten orders for pediatric continuous drug infusions.

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Continuous drug infusions in critically ill patients are associated with a high error rate. Although CPOE systems have shown to reduce prescribing errors, the effect on administration errors has not been studied in pediatric ICU patients. We studied this by measuring the ability of nurses to detect medication administration errors using CPOE orders versus handwritten orders for continuous drug infusions.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: Azizeh K Sowan, Gaffoor Mohamed, Karen Soeken, Mary Etta Mills, Meg Johantgen, Vinay Vaidya

Institutions: University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Maryland, College Park

Language: English

Topic: Patient Safety and Medication Errors

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2163102188

FWCI: 0.35

Cites: 1

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10