Commercial electronic prescribing systems can reduce medication errors in hospital patients
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
A study published in this week's PLoS Medicine shows that commercial electronic prescribing systems (commonly known as e-prescribing, in which prescribers use a computer to order medications for their patients through a system with the help of prompts, aids, and alerts) could substantially reduce prescribing error rates in hospital in-patients.