A comparison of medication administrations errors using CPOE orders vs. handwritten orders for pediatric continuous drug infusions.
Continuous drug infusions in critically ill patients are associated with a high error rate. Although CPOE systems have shown to reduce prescribing errors, the effect on administration errors has not been studied in pediatric ICU patients. We studied this by measuring the ability of nurses to detect medication administration errors using CPOE orders versus handwritten orders for continuous drug infusions.
Sowan
Azizeh K
AK
University of Maryland School of Nursing, USA.
Mohamed
Gaffoor
G
Soeken
Karen
K
Mills
Mary Etta
ME
Johantgen
Meg
M
Vaidya
Vinay
V
D002648:Child; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D014956:Writing