Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Prescription Errors in the Intensive Care Unit: a Controlled Cross-Sectional Trial.

Ghent University Hospital (UZ)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Safety; Medication Errors

Treatments: Device: computerized physician order entry

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00287274

2004/002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Device: computerized physician order entry.

We wanted to investigate if the introduction of a computerized intensive care unit system reduced the incidence and severity of medication prescription errors (MPEs). A prospective trial was conducted during 5 weeks in a paper-based unit versus a computerized unit. The registration of different classes of MPEs was done by a clinical pharmacist. An independent panel evaluated the severity of MPEs.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients admitted to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Exclusion criteria

• Adult Patients admitted to other units
• Pediatric patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)