Description
The CPOE Evaluation Tool provides hospitals with an overall percentage of unsafe orders detected and a list of potentially fatal orders their EHR system failed to alert on. The mean overall score increased by 13.4% from 2017 to 2018. The percentage of fatal orders not alerted on, decreased from 24% in 2017 to 17% in 2018. Overall, hospitals alert on most common prescriber errors, but there is important room for improvement in alerting against potentially fatal orders.
Learning Objective: Understand that although computerized physician order entry systems are detecting the majority of unsafe medication orders, there are some that are still failing to alert on potentially fatal orders.
Authors:
Zoe Co (Presenter)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Diane Seger, Partners Healthcare
Lisa Newmark, Partners Healthcare
Melissa Danforth, The Leapfrog Group
David Classen, University of Utah
David Bates, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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