Paediatric clinical decision support systems.

Drug-Drug Interaction Clinical Decision Support Systems: Advantages, Challenges and Barriers, and Strategies to Overcome Them

Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a common source of preventable medical errors in inpatient and outpatient settings of both developed and developing countries. When two or more drugs are simultaneously prescribed, interactions between their effects may result in preventable adverse events such as damages to vital organs, frequent hospitalizations, prolonged length of hospital stay, and increas...

Drug-Drug Interaction Clinical Decision Support Systems: Advantages, Challenges and Barriers, and Strategies to Overcome Them

Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a common source of preventable medical errors in inpatient and outpatient settings of both developed and developing countries. When two or more drugs are simultaneously prescribed, interactions between their effects may result in preventable adverse events such as damages to vital organs, frequent hospitalizations, prolonged length of hospital stay, and increas...

Developing consensus on hospital prescribing indicators of potential harm for infants and children.

AIMS The aim of the study was to develop a list of hospital based paediatric prescribing indicators that can be used to assess the impact of electronic prescribing or clinical decision support tools on paediatric prescribing errors. METHODS Two rounds of an electronic consensus method (eDelphi) were carried out with 21 expert panellists from the UK. Panellists were asked to score each prescri...

ISABEL: support with clinical decision making.

Clinical Decision Support System: An Effective Tool to Detect and Manage Drug-Laboratory Interactions

Lack of proper linkage between a patient’s medications and the results of laboratory tests can lead to common medication errors called drug-laboratory interactions (DLIs). DLIs are among the major types of preventable medication errors in the treatment process. Application of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for physicians and other health care providers to decrease DLIs can effectivel...