Statewide Implementation of Electronic Health Records
- Conditions
- Medication Errors
- Interventions
- Other: Electronic Health Record Implementation
- Registration Number
- NCT00225576
- Lead Sponsor
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Brief 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
- Detailed 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).
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2030
- All patients of physicians participating in the study
- Any patients who are not part of a panel of a participating physician
- Any patients who are younger than 18 years of age
- Any patients who came in for a second visit within each data collection period
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- FACTORIAL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description 2 Electronic Health Record Implementation Paper prescribing 2005 vs. electronic prescribing 2007
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Medication errors 2005-2007 2. Near misses 2005-2007 3. Adverse drug events 2005-2007
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States