Abstract:Background and Importance Prescribing errors represent a safety risk for hospitalised patients, especially in paediatric s. 1 Computerised physician order entry (CPOE) might reduce prescribing errors, although its effect has not yet been thoroughly studied on paediatric general wards.Aim and Objectives This study investigated the impact of a CPOE on prescribing errors in children on general wards at a University Children's Hospital.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.