Evaluation of Electronic Prescribing in Hospital Ambulatory Care Clinics

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

40 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2005-08-31

Study Completion Date

2006-08-31

Brief Summary

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All reliably evaluated POE systems to date have been desktop computer based, but now there is widespread use and acceptance among physicians of PDA devices for a variety of purposes. Clinicians report that drug information on a PDA improved their access to information and efficiency while reducing their self perceived error rates6. The use of these devices for information retrieval in clinical settings is expected to grow as wireless communication becomes more ubiquitous and as more applications become available6,7. During the past decade there has been a growing awareness of several issues aimed at promoting safer health care for our patients - point of care information technology is one of the keys.

To this end we have worked with a Canadian company, Drugmagnet, to develop and implement PDA-based electronic prescribing system within a major Canadian academic health centre. This is a cluster randomised trial, in which access to and use of the e-prescribing system is switched on and off for randomly chosen weeks, thus time serves as the randomized element.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Electronic Prescribing

Keywords

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medication error electronic prescribing patient safety

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

ECT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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PDA-based Electronic Prescribing Software

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* active staff physician at Sunnybrook \& Women's College HSC

Exclusion Criteria

* inadequate prescribing practice (minimum number)

Minimum Eligible Age

0 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Principal Investigators

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Merrick F Zwarenstein, MBBCH

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science

William J Sibbald, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre

Locations

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Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Science Centre

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Dainty KN, Adhikari NK, Kiss A, Quan S, Zwarenstein M. Electronic prescribing in an ambulatory care setting: a cluster randomized trial. J Eval Clin Pract. 2012 Aug;18(4):761-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01657.x. Epub 2011 Mar 18.

Reference Type DERIVED

PMID: 21414109 (View on PubMed)

Zwarenstein MF, Dainty KN, Quan S, Kiss A, Adhikari NK. A cluster randomized trial evaluating electronic prescribing in an ambulatory care setting. Trials. 2007 Oct 3;8:28. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-8-28.