ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2016
Automatic Errors: A Case Series on the Errors Inherent in Electronic Prescribing.
Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- CancelRx case study: implications for clinic and community pharmacy work systems.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Characterization of Safety Events Involving Technology in Primary and Community Care.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- Discontinuation of outpatient medications: implications for electronic messaging to pharmacies using CancelRx.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Impact of CancelRx on discontinuation of controlled substance prescriptions: an interrupted time series analysis.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2022Article
- CancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2021Article
- Understanding CancelRx: Results of End-to-End Functional Testing, Proactive Risk Assessment, and Pilot Implementation.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
- Analysis of medication therapy discontinuation orders in new electronic prescriptions and opportunities for implementing CancelRx.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018Article
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Abstract
The adoption of electronic prescribing is on the rise, as it reduces medication errors compared to handwritten orders. The inadvertent dispensing of discontinued medications is a type of medication error that is less well described, but one that can lead to adverse events. Software for electronic prescriptions transmits orders for refills or new prescriptions, but not discontinuations, to the pharmacy. Medications that have been stopped are displayed only at the prescribing facility's electronic medical record (EMR). This report describes five cases in which the pharmacy dispensed electronically discontinued medications, two of which contributed to adverse outcomes.
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