Analysis and evaluation of results following the implementation of a programme of e-prescribing in a tertiary hospital
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https://doi.org/10.30827/ars.v57i2.4958Keywords:
Electronically Assisted Prescription (EAP), pharmaceutical interventions, patient safety, medication errorsAbstract
Introduction: the Electronically Assisted Prescription (EAP) is now a useful tool in the process of hospitalization. The removal of the prescription or transcript handwritten, has managed to minimize errors related to medication, mitigating the constant concern involving the safety of the patient.
Objective: to analyze data pharmaceutical intervention reported following implementation of a software for e-prescribing and the security that gives the user.
Materials and methods: retrospective study of five months duration, which reviewed the electronic medical records of prescription, describing medication errors that are detected and the number of pharmaceutical interventions carried out.
Results: out of a total of 27.533 validations, were performed 4.917 pharmaceutical interventions (IF), which represents 32.78 medication errors per day and 0.95 errors per patient.
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