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Sponsors and Collaborators: |
Brigham and Women's Hospital National Patient Safety Foundation Children's Hospital Boston |
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Information provided by: | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00153205 |
The purpose of this study is to determine how effective ward-based clinical pharmacists and computerized physician order entry systems are in reducing serious medication errors in pediatric inpatients.
Condition | Intervention |
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Medication Errors |
Device: computerized physician order entry |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Historical Control, Single Group Assignment, Safety Study |
Official Title: | Serious Medication Errors in Pediatrics: Evaluation of Prevention Strategies |
Estimated Enrollment: | 1000 |
Study Start Date: | February 2000 |
This is a prospective cohort study at Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), before and after the introduction of two distinct interventions. The first intervention at Children's Hospital was the introduction of clinical pharmacists on inpatient pediatric wards to target errors at the stages of physician ordering and nurse transcription. The second intervention is technological: the introduction of physician computer order entry at the BWH neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This intervention will most effectively target errors at the stage of physician ordering, and secondarily address errors at the stage of pharmacy dispensing and nurse transcription. Data on serious medication errors will be collected pre and post each intervention.
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Contact: Rainu Kaushal | 212-746-1703 | rkaushal@partners.org |
United States, Massachusetts | |
Brigham and Women's Hospital | Recruiting |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02120 | |
Contact: Rainu Kaushal 212-746-1703 rkaushal@partners.org |
Principal Investigator: | Rainu Kaushal | BWH |
Study ID Numbers: | 2005-P-000322/1; BWH |
Study First Received: | September 8, 2005 |
Last Updated: | December 27, 2006 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00153205 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
medication errors medical records systems, computerized patient safety |