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    "pk": 10157,
    "title": "Impact of Internally Developed Electronic Prescription on Prescribing Errors at Discharge from the Emergency Department",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction: \nMedication errors are common, with studies reporting at least one error perpatient encounter. At hospital discharge, medication errors vary from 15%-38%. However,studies assessing the effect of an internally developed electronic (E)-prescription systemat discharge from an emergency department (ED) are comparatively minimal. Additionally,commercially available electronic solutions are cost-prohibitive in many resource-limitedsettings. We assessed the impact of introducing an internally developed, low-cost E-prescriptionsystem, with a list of commonly prescribed medications, on prescription error rates at dischargefrom the ED, compared to handwritten prescriptions.\nMethods: \nWe conducted a pre- and post-intervention study comparing error rates in a randomlyselected sample of discharge prescriptions (handwritten versus electronic) five months pre andfour months post the introduction of the E-prescription. The internally developed, E-prescriptionsystem included a list of 166 commonly prescribed medications with the generic name, strength,dose, frequency and duration. We included a total of 2,883 prescriptions in this study: 1,475 inthe pre-intervention phase were handwritten (HW) and 1,408 in the post-intervention phase wereelectronic. We calculated rates of 14 different errors and compared them between the pre- andpost-intervention period.\nResults:\n Overall, E-prescriptions included fewer prescription errors as compared to HWprescriptions.Specifically, E-prescriptions reduced missing dose (11.3% to 4.3%, p <0.0001),missing frequency (3.5% to 2.2%, p=0.04), missing strength errors (32.4% to 10.2%, p <0.0001)and legibility (0.7% to 0.2%, p=0.005). E-prescriptions, however, were associated with a significantincrease in duplication errors, specifically with home medication (1.7% to 3%, p=0.02).\nConclusion: \nA basic, internally developed E-prescription system, featuring commonly usedmedications, effectively reduced medication errors in a low-resource setting where the costs ofsophisticated commercial electronic solutions are prohibitive. [West J Emerg Med. 2017;18(5)943-950.]",
    "language": "",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [],
    "section": "Technology in Emergency Medicine",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bz481r1",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Eveline",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hitti",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Hani",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tamim",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Research Institute, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Rinad",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bakhti",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zebian",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Afif",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mufarrij",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2016-08-11T20:24:27Z",
    "date_accepted": "2016-08-11T20:24:27Z",
    "date_published": "2017-07-14T18:34:21Z",
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}