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PA Patient Safety Report: Health IT Contributed to 889 Medication-Error Events in Six Months

Rajiv Leventhal | Healthcare Informatics | March 17, 2017

In the first six months of 2016, Pennsylvania healthcare facilities reported 889 medication-error events that indicated health IT as a contributing factor, according to a report from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. The report noted that the most frequently reported errors included dose omission, wrong dose or overdosage, and extra dose; the most commonly reported systems involved were the computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) and the pharmacy systems...

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