Name
A Validated Strategy to Reduce Error in Electronic Orders
Date & Time
Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Zane Last
Description
 
St. Barnabas Hospital Health System treats the most critically ill and severely injured patients. As a New York State-designated Stroke Center and AIDS Center, SBH Health System provides access to much-needed services. To reduce the risk of errors when using computerized provider order entry (CPOE), SBH Health System convened a multidisciplinary team to review its ordering process. It found several contributing factors--including interruptions, alert fatigue and the lack of an active patient identification process--could lead to wrong-patient errors. SBH Health System developed alerts in its EHR that required the ordering clinician to verify the identity of the patient. Doing so enabled a significant reduction of near-miss, wrong-patient CPOE orders. The findings of this project were published in the Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management in December 2016.
 
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