Medication administration quality and health information technology: a national study of US hospitals.
To determine whether the use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and electronic medication administration records (eMAR) is associated with better quality of medication administration at medium-to-large acute-care hospitals. DATA/STUDY SETTING: A retrospective cross-sectional analysis of data from three sources: CPOE/eMAR usage from HIMSS Analytics (2010), medication quality scores from CMS Hospital Compare (2010), and hospital characteristics from CMS Acute Inpatient Prospective Payment System (2009). The analysis focused on 11 [...]
Author(s): Appari, Ajit, Carian, Emily K, Johnson, M Eric, Anthony, Denise L
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000289