Relatively little is known about how e-prescribing impacts outpatient prescribing errors.
It was hypothesized that redesigned DDI alerts would significantly improve prescribers' efficiency and reduce prescribing errors.
We found that prescribing errors in secondary care are prevalent, regardless of prescriber grade.
America's leading doctors and hospitals have been using electronic records to reduce deaths from mistakes, injuries from prescribing errors and waste from unnecessary treatments.
To determine the rate of prescribing errors in a family medicine clinic and the subsequent impact of pharmacist-led educational and error notification interventions on prescribing errors.
A fifth of fatal cases were caused by drug prescribing errors.
Given current knowledge of prescribing errors, standard paper prescription forms are inadequate for promoting high-quality outpatient prescriptions.
A multifaceted intervention was conducted to reduce prescribing errors in handwritten medication orders written by house staff.
Prescribing errors are common.
Prescribing errors are common in hospital inpatients.
Chemotherapy prescribing errors may arise even using electronic prescribing.
