Analysis of electronic medication orders with large overdoses: opportunities for mitigating dosing errors.
Users of electronic health record (EHR) systems frequently prescribe doses outside recommended dose ranges, and tend to ignore the alerts that result. Since some of these dosing errors are the result of system design flaws, analysis of large overdoses can lead to the discovery of needed system changes.
Author(s): Kirkendall, E S, Kouril, M, Minich, T, Spooner, S A
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2013-08-RA-0057