Statewide Implementation of Electronic Health Records

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

To determine the effects of Electronic Health Record use on medication error rates in primary care office practices.

Hypothesis: Adoption of Electronic Health Records through this program will reduce medication errors

Clinical Trial Description

From the practices committed to implementing EHR in early 2005, we randomly selected 15 adult community-based primary care physicians. We selected 15 similar physicians in practices that were not planning to adopt in that time period.

At each of these physicians' practices we documented rates of medication errors for one week prior to the implementation of an EHR using duplicate prescription pads. Two months after the implementation in the adopting group, allowing some time for familiarization with the tool, we collected two weeks of data using computer-based information (in the adopting arm) and duplicate prescriptions (in the non-adopting arm). ;

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Medication Errors

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT00225576
Study type	Interventional
Source	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	Phase 2
Start date	September 2005
Completion date	December 2012

View Details

See also
Status	Clinical Trial	Phase
Completed	`NCT03921346` - Reducing Prehospital Medication Errors & Time to Drug Delivery by EMS During Simulated Pediatric CPR	N/A
Completed	`NCT00773500` - Impact of Vendor Systems on Ambulatory Medication Safety	N/A
Completed	`NCT00256568` - Outpatient Prescription Errors: Detection, Analysis, and Impact on Safety	N/A
Recruiting	`NCT05784194` - Correct Medication List at and After Hospital Discharge	N/A
Completed	`NCT00773942` - Design & Evaluation of a Medication Therapy Management Program to Improve Patient Safety in Medicare Beneficiaries	N/A
Completed	`NCT01834924` - Improving Communication of Medication Instructions to Parents	N/A
Completed	`NCT03541421` - Self-administration of Patients Own Drugs During Hospital Stay	N/A
Completed	`NCT00603070` - Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists	N/A
Completed	`NCT00134823` - Improving Pediatric Safety and Quality With Health Care Information Technology	N/A
Completed	`NCT00287274` - Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Prescription Errors in the Intensive Care Unit: a Controlled Cross-Sectional Trial.	N/A
Completed	`NCT04586595` - A Randomised Pilot Study of the REVISiT Intervention	N/A
Completed	`NCT00225563` - Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC)	N/A
Completed	`NCT00537433` - Improving Parental Understanding of Medication Instructions Through a Pictogram-Based Intervention	Phase 1
Not yet recruiting	`NCT01734642` - Observational Study to Reduce Medication Errors	N/A
Recruiting	`NCT00560001` - MD.2 Medication Dispenser Medication Adherence Study	Phase 3
Terminated	`NCT01294501` - Decreasing Medication Errors by Caregivers Using a Health Literacy Intervention	N/A
Not yet recruiting	`NCT00845494` - Efficacy of a Behavioral Based Education Intervention to Decrease Medication History Errors Among Professional Nurses.	Phase 0
Withdrawn	`NCT00153205` - Serious Medication Errors in Pediatrics: Evaluation of Prevention Strategies	N/A
Enrolling by invitation	`NCT05381441` - Safety Action Feedback and Engagement (SAFE) Loop	N/A
Recruiting	`NCT04766619` - Process Evaluation of OptimiseRx and PINCER