Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
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Leapfrog Group released the initial results of its survey on patient safety
(1/17/02). Of 497 urban hospitals in six regions (Atlanta, California, East
Tennessee, Minnesota, St. Louis, and Seattle-Tacoma-Everett), 241 hospitals (or
48 percent) responded to the survey on computerized physician order entry
(CPOE), specialist staffing in the intensive care unit, and evidence-based
hospital referrals. According to the survey, 3.3 percent of responding hospitals
have implemented CPOE and an additional 30 percent plan to do so by 2004.
CPOE is also addressed in other recent reports. The American Hospital Association’s report, The Challenge of Assessing Patient Safety in America's Hospitals, notes that although CPOE with computerized decision support holds much promise for improving patient safety, there is not yet sufficient evidence to establish CPOE as a standard of care. The Leapfrog Group’s CPOE: A Look at the Vendor Marketplace and Getting Started provides information to help hospital decision makers organize a CPOE effort and launch a search for an appropriate CPOE solution
Publications that describe and plan for CPOE as part of an overall strategy are available by downloading the following:
- Leapfrog Vendor selection guide: CPOE Report: Getting Started (1 MB)
- Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals - a Framework (711 KB)
- Addressing Medication Errors - Ten Tools (586 KB)
- A Primer on Physician Order Entry (330 KB)
- AHA report: Challenge of Assessing Patient Safety (165 KB)
- Prioritizing capital allocation for patient safety (300 KB)
Premier Safety Share newsletter archives
- Bar-coding surgical sponges reduces risk of loss, researchers find (09/08)
- Funding, lack of clinical data standards are top barriers to implementing IT for safety (7/03)
- Lack of CPOE and provider-patient communication linked to outpatient ADEs (6/03)
- NQF endorses 30 patient safety practices (6/03)
- Guidance - CPOE evaluation and case studies (3/03)
- Few hospitals have computerized physician order entry, but many plan to implement (01/02)