Drug to drug interaction alerts with CPOE

First Review

This is a review from the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and the article is Randomized clinical trial of a customized electronic alert requiring an affirmative response compared to a control group receiving a commercial passive CPOE alert: NSAID-warfarin co prescribing as a test case.

Introduction

What is the leading cause of death in American Hospitals? Medication errors is the leading cause. There are several studies show medication errors with the use of Computer physician order entry (CPOE). This study is looking at the effectiveness of computerized decision support systems to prevent drug-drug interactions.