Can an automatic alert system eliminate medication errors? Hospital system gives it a go

Clin Resour Manag. 2000 Oct;1(10):154-6, 145.

Abstract

Community Hospitals of Indianapolis refined commercially available software to identify when medication orders require a second look and generate an e-mail or page.

MeSH terms

  • Decision Support Systems, Clinical*
  • Hospital Information Systems*
  • Humans
  • Indiana
  • Medication Errors / economics
  • Medication Errors / prevention & control*
  • Medication Systems, Hospital*
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care
  • Software