Researchers studied the number of duplicate medication orders before and after CPOE with CDS implementation. They found that duplicate medication errors increased from 48 before CPOE implementation to 167 after implementation.
The authors identified several contributing factors, including communication and hand-offs, local CDS design and CPOE data display.
Read the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association abstract on CPOE and clinical decision support.
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