Improving Safety By Computerizing Outpatient Prescribing

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

Get a concise snapshot of the trial, including recruitment status, study phase, enrollment targets, and key timeline milestones.

Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

701 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2000-08-31

Study Completion Date

2010-12-31

Brief Summary

Review the sponsor-provided synopsis that highlights what the study is about and why it is being conducted.

Patient safety is at the forefront of critical issues in health care. Medications are the single most frequent cause of adverse events, and in the inpatient setting adverse drug events (ADEs) are common, expensive, injurious to patients, and often preventable. Relatively little, however, is known about the frequency of ADEs in the ambulatory setting, how to monitor for outpatient ADEs, or on the impact of prevention strategies such as computerization of prescribing supplemented by decision-support.

Related Clinical Trials

Explore similar clinical trials based on study characteristics and research focus.

Improving Safety by Basic Computerizing Outpatient Prescribing

NCT01091038

Adverse Drug Events

COMPLETED PHASE2/PHASE3

Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists

NCT00603070

Medication Errors

COMPLETED

Preventing Adverse Drug Events With PatientSite

NCT00140504

Adverse Drug Event

COMPLETED NA

Improving Safety and Quality With Outpatient Order Entry

NCT00243334

Ambulatory Care Information Systems Clinical Decision Support Systems

UNKNOWN NA

Information Systems-enabled Outreach Program for Adverse Drug Events

NCT02059044

Adverse Drug Events

COMPLETED NA

Detailed Description

Dive into the extended narrative that explains the scientific background, objectives, and procedures in greater depth.

Specific Aim 1: Increase routine identification of outpatient adverse drug events (ADEs) through development of a computerized ADE detection monitor.

Specific Aim 2: Use basic computerized outpatient prescribing to reduce preventable ADEs in a diverse array of outpatient settings.

Specific Aim 3: Use advanced decision-support within computerized prescribing to reduce the frequency of preventable ADEs, medication errors, and potential ADEs.

Conditions

See the medical conditions and disease areas that this research is targeting or investigating.

Impact of Electronic Prescribing on Medication Safety

Study Design

Understand how the trial is structured, including allocation methods, masking strategies, primary purpose, and other design elements.

Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Caregivers

Study Groups

Review each arm or cohort in the study, along with the interventions and objectives associated with them.

Adverse Drug Event Monitoring

In this intervention arm, clinicians received medication safety alerts when they prescribed medications in the electronic medical record.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Adverse Drug Event Monitoring

Intervention Type OTHER

The intervention in this study is the presentation of medication safety alerts in the electronic medical record to improve patient outcomes and safety.

Care as Usual

In this arm, clinicians did not receive the medication safety alerts.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Learn about the drugs, procedures, or behavioral strategies being tested and how they are applied within this trial.

Adverse Drug Event Monitoring

The intervention in this study is the presentation of medication safety alerts in the electronic medical record to improve patient outcomes and safety.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Check the participation requirements, including inclusion and exclusion rules, age limits, and whether healthy volunteers are accepted.

Inclusion Criteria

* For the impact of basic decision support, clinics were not randomized
* For impact of advanced decision support, clinics were randomized to receive the intervention