title: Physician Order Entry impact on drug turn-around times.
abstract: This paper describes a study of the impact of Physician Order Entry (POE) on pharmacy order turn-around times. The study looked at two surgical services, Neurosurgery and Transplant, of a large Midwestern academic medical center. Pharmacy orders were followed in these units from the time a physician wrote an order to the time the patient received the medication. The first part of the study tracked pharmacy orders for a two-month period before the implementation of POE and the second part of the study tracked pharmacy orders for a two-month period after POE had been implemented. The pre- and post-POE pharmacy turn-around times were compared. It was expected that the data would show a substantial decrease in pharmacy order turn-around times. Our study did, in fact, show a significant reduction in this turn-around-time.
authors.affiliation: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Meical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lehman
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Brill
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Skarulis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D016303:Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital; D013997:Time Factors; D014584:User-Computer Interface