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Adverse drug event rates in six community hospitals and the potential impact of computerized physician order entry for prevention.

February 18, 2011

Hug BL, Witkowski DJ, Sox CM, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;25(1).

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This study used chart review with trigger tools to estimate the incidence of medication errors in community hospitals. A high proportion of errors occurred at the prescribing stage, and therefore could have been prevented by a computerized provider order entry system.

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