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Risk of Wrong-Patient Errors With Multiple Records Open

NCT02876588 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3356

Last updated 2025-02-10

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Summary

This study is designed to achieve the following aims:

1. Assess the relationship between the number of records open at the time of placing an order, and the risk of placing an order on the wrong patient.
2. Compare the incidence of wrong-patient orders in a "restricted environment" that limits its providers to only one record open at a time to an "unrestricted environment" where users can open a maximum of four records at once.
3. The results of this study will help inform decisions on how to safely implement EHR systems.
4. The results of this study will inform a larger scale health IT implementation research project evaluating the balance between the wrong-patient error risks and potential efficiency gains of having multiple records open at once, with rigorous research methodologies.

Conditions

  • Medical Errors
  • Medical Order Entry Systems

Interventions

OTHER

Unrestricted

Users may open up to 4 patient records at a time.

OTHER

Restricted

Users are restricted to open 1 patient record at a time.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • Columbia University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jason Adelman, MD, MS · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-01
Primary Completion
2017-04-30
Completion
2017-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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