When intercepted and non-intercepted errors were combined, CPOE was associated with an improvement in the error outcome scoring compared to HWP; however, the three intercepted errors that could have caused permanent harm or death all occurred with CPOE.
In some studies, successful levels of communication skills have been linked to students' diagnostic efficiency, patient stress, patient compliance, medical errors, general outcome, outcome in chronic disorders, and patient and physician satisfaction [ 3- 12].
The goals of this paper are to: (1) identify contextual factors that influenced implementation of a federally-funded field study undertaken to examine the impact of a community hospital CPOE system on medication error outcomes; and (2) describe how these contextual factors influenced study methodology and implementation.
Therefore, intervention effects are also assessed in terms of safety and error outcomes.
A report from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, as well, demonstrated that there was no advantage to DALK for refractive error outcomes compared with PK [ 13].
Given that count of errors (and their respective residuals) in this study did not follow a normal distribution and were overdispersed, the negative binomial distribution was a good fit for these data; this distribution is a conservative choice, however, as demonstrated by the wide CIs reported for CPT error outcomes.
The correlation coefficients between the error of criterion equation (adoption) and errors of outcome equations (yield equations) in each specification are given in the last row.
The correlation coefficient between the errors of outcome and the selection equations was positive for the results of the total sample (ρ = 0.278).
We used process times, wait times and information content as process measures and handoff errors as outcome measures.
To highlight the potential impact of these linkage errors on outcome measurement, we identified patient groups most affected by linkage error.
