Costs associated with developing and implementing a computerized clinical decision support system for medication dosing for patients with renal insufficiency in the long-term care setting.
A team of physicians, pharmacists, and informatics professionals developed a CDSS added to a commercial electronic medical record system to provide prescribers with patient-specific maximum dosing recommendations based on renal function. We tracked the time spent by team members and used US national averages of relevant hourly wages to estimate costs. The team required 924.5 hours and $48,668.57 in estimated costs to develop 94 alerts for 62 drugs. The most [...]
Author(s): Field, Terry S, Rochon, Paula, Lee, Monica, Gavendo, Linda, Subramanian, Sujha, Hoover, Sonia, Baril, Joann, Gurwitz, Jerry
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2589