News tagged with prescribing errors

Study: E-prescribing cuts medication errors by seven-fold

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell medical school study finds that when doctors use electronic systems to write prescriptions, they make seven times fewer errors than when they scrawl by hand.

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created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Physicians click their way to better prescriptions

Is it time for all community-based doctors to turn to e-prescribing to cut down on the number of medication errors? According to Rainu Kaushal and colleagues from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, electronic ...

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created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0