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We thought we would be perfect: medication errors before and after the initiation of computerized physician order entry.

Schwartzberg D, Ivanovic S, Patel S, Burjonrappa SC. J Surg Res. 2015 Apr 30; [Epub ahead of print].

This pre-post study found an increase in medication prescribing errors following the introduction ofcomputerized provider order entry. This work adds to the growing literature about unintended consequencesof electronic prescribing, highlighting the need for real-time error detection.

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