Errors associated with outpatient computerized prescribing systems
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Errors associated with outpatient computerized prescribing systems
OBJECTIVE To report the frequency, types, and causes of errors associated with outpatient computer-generated prescriptions, and to develop a framework to classify these errors to determine which strategies have greatest potential for preventing them. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study of 3850 computer-generated prescriptions received by a commercial outpatient pharmacy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1067-5027,1527-974X
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000205