CPOE study shows drop in hospital errors.
Facilities with CPOE in place had fewer hospital-based errors and more outpatient errors than those without a CPOE system. Databases can be useful in identifying specific types of errors related to CPOE. Most effective strategy for evaluating a CPOE system would involve a pre/post study.
D006801:Humans; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States