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Electronic Prescribing and Monitoring Are Needed to Improve Drug Use
Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:2713-2714.
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ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING is introducing significant changes in how drugs are used and monitored. Sophisticated computer programs are being tested that will improve clinician prescribing practices and enhance the monitoring of patients with chronic diseases. Such technology will open up an exciting frontier in which to improve the quality of care, to reduce medication errors, and to potentially decrease long-term health care costs. Computerized medication order entry is an extremely powerful method that can be used to advance and refine the process of prescribing medications.
However, a recent report from the Institute of Medicine titled "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System"1 serves as a backdrop to the ongoing research that is examining methods to better use computer technology to enhance prescribing practices. This report has raised awareness concerning a well-known problem: suboptimal medication use. The Institute of Medicine estimates that the problem is so huge that medication errors . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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