Data-driven order set generation and evaluation in the pediatric environment.

Introduction

CPOE has the potential to improve care through improved order legibility, completeness, and advanced clinical decision support features to guide care and catch errors before they reach the patient. Typically, orders are entered in to CPOE system one item at a time, however even the earliest implementations included items grouped by clinical purpose into "order sets". Order sets may improve care delivery by making it faster and easier for the physician to enter orders and by guiding care according to known best practices.