ReviewDrug safety2011
The role of computerized decision support in reducing errors in selecting medicines for prescription: narrative review.
Review in Drug safety, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review of predictive risk models for adverse drug events in hospitalized patients.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2018Pooled it
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- Electronic Medication Management Systems: Analysis of Enhancements to Reduce Errors and Improve Workflow.Applied clinical informatics · 2021Article
- Electronic Medical Record Alert Associated With Reduced Opioid and Benzodiazepine Coprescribing in High-risk Veteran Patients.Medical care · 2018Article
- Primary care providers' use of pharmacist support for delivery of pharmacogenetic testing.Pharmacogenomics · 2017Article
- Polypharmacy and risk of antiretroviral drug interactions among the aging HIV-infected population.Journal of general internal medicine · 2013Article
- 'Too much, too late': mixed methods multi-channel video recording study of computerized decision support systems and GP prescribing.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2013Article
- Effects of two commercial electronic prescribing systems on prescribing error rates in hospital in-patients: a before and after study.PLoS medicine · 2012Article
- Prescription errors in cancer chemotherapy: Omissions supersede potentially harmful errors.Journal of pharmacology & pharmacotherapeuticsArticle
- Computerized clinical decision support for medication prescribing and utilization in pediatrics.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIAReview
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Abstract
This narrative review includes a summary of research examining prescribing errors, prescription decision making and the role computerized decision support plays in this decision-making process. A reduction in medication prescribing errors, specifically a reduction in the selection of inappropriate medications, is expected to result from the implementation of an effective computerized decision support system. Previous research has investigated the impact of the implementation of electronic systems on medication errors more broadly. This review examines the specific characteristics of decision support systems that may contribute to fewer knowledge-based mistakes in prescribing, and critically appraises the large volume of information available on the decision-making process of selecting medicines for prescription. The results highlight a need for work investigating what decision strategies are used by doctors with different levels of expertise in the prescribing of medications. The nature of the relationship between decision support and decision performance is not well understood and future research is needed to determine the mechanisms by which computerized decision support influences medication selection.
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