Nearly 12 Percent of E-Prescriptions Contain Error, Study Shows

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Nearly 12 percent of a study’s monitored e-prescriptions contained an error, and omitted information was the most common error within computerized prescribing systems, according to a study in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.

The study also found the overall error rate of e-prescriptions is similar to manually handwritten prescription error rates.

Click here to read the entire article in Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine Review on e-prescribing systems.

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