Effect of electronic prescribing compared to traditional hand-written prescribing on medication errors among patients attending outpatient setting in a tertiary care institute of western Rajasthan: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 1,280
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- To find an association between the medication errors in electronic and traditional handwritten prescribing.
研究概览
简要总结
Effect of electronic prescribing compared to traditional hand-written prescribing on medication errors among patients attending outpatient setting in a tertiary care institute of western Rajasthan: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Research question: Does electronic prescribing have any effect on the medication errors?
Aims and Objectives:
AIM: To find an association between the medication errors in electronic and traditional handwritten prescribing.
Objectives:
1. To find out the frequency of medication errors in electronic and traditional handwritten prescribing.
2. To compare the types of medication errors in electronic and traditional handwritten prescribing.
3. Challenges and barriers faced by the clinician in electronic and traditional handwritten prescribing.
Inclusion criteria: All the patients who are willing to return to the OPD to show the medicines bought from any pharmacy of their choice.
Exclusion criteria: All those patients who refuse to give consent for the study and severely ill patients.
Expected outcome of the proposed study: Electronic administration of Prescription can reduce Medication Error in clinical setup.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12.00 Year(s) 至 90.00 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •All the patients who are willing to return to the OPD to show the medicines bought from any pharmacy of their choice.
排除标准
- •All those patients who refuse to give consent for the study and severely ill patients.
结局指标
主要结局
To find an association between the medication errors in electronic and traditional handwritten prescribing.
时间窗: Not applicable as there is no follow-up required. Medication errors will be checked and the patient will be guided. Thus, all the data will be collected at the first visit / baseline visit itself from February to May.
次要结局
- To find out the frequency of medication errors in electronic & traditional handwritten prescribing.(Not applicable as there is no follow-up required. Medication errors will be checked & the patient will be guided. Thus, all the data will be collected at the first visit / baseline visit itself from February to May.)
- To compare the types of medication errors in electronic & traditional handwritten prescribing.(Not applicable as there is no follow-up required. Medication errors will be checked & the patient will be guided. Thus, all the data will be collected at the first visit / baseline visit itself from February to May.)
- Challenges and barriers faced by the clinician in electronic and traditional handwritten prescribing.(6 months)
研究者
Tarun Kumar
AIIMS Jodhpur