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.
