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Improving Safety By Computerizing Outpatient Prescribing

NCT00235027 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 701

Last updated 2015-07-21

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Summary

Patient safety is at the forefront of critical issues in health care. Medications are the single most frequent cause of adverse events, and in the inpatient setting adverse drug events (ADEs) are common, expensive, injurious to patients, and often preventable. Relatively little, however, is known about the frequency of ADEs in the ambulatory setting, how to monitor for outpatient ADEs, or on the impact of prevention strategies such as computerization of prescribing supplemented by decision-support.

Conditions

  • Impact of Electronic Prescribing on Medication Safety

Interventions

OTHER

Adverse Drug Event Monitoring

The intervention in this study is the presentation of medication safety alerts in the electronic medical record to improve patient outcomes and safety.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Tejal K Gandhi, MD, MPH · Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • David Bates, MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • Marc Overhage, MD · Regenstrief Institute, Inc.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-08-31
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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