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The article was published in 2014 in PLOS ONE, the world’s first multidisciplinary Open Access journal.
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==Background==
 
==Background==
<ref name="Pills">Hsu C-C, Chou C-Y, Chou C-L, et al. Impact of a Warning CPOE System on the Inappropriate Pill Splitting of Prescribed Medications in Outpatients. http://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxyhost.library.tmc.edu/pmc/articles/PMC4257670/</ref>
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Splitting of extended-release (ER) or enteric-coated (EC) oral drugs can lead to adverse drug events (ADE). To reduce inappropriate pill splitting, the authors developed an automatic warning system within CPOE in an outpatient setting of a hospital. The study assessed the impact of the system and physicians responses. <ref name="Pills"> Hsu C-C, Chou C-Y, Chou C-L, et al. Impact of a Warning CPOE System on the Inappropriate Pill Splitting of Prescribed Medications in Outpatients. http://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxyhost.library.tmc.edu/pmc/articles/PMC4257670/</ref>
  
 
==Methods==
 
==Methods==

Revision as of 12:27, 31 October 2015

The article was published in 2014 in PLOS ONE, the world’s first multidisciplinary Open Access journal.

Background

Splitting of extended-release (ER) or enteric-coated (EC) oral drugs can lead to adverse drug events (ADE). To reduce inappropriate pill splitting, the authors developed an automatic warning system within CPOE in an outpatient setting of a hospital. The study assessed the impact of the system and physicians responses. [1]

Methods

Results

Conclusion

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References

  1. Hsu C-C, Chou C-Y, Chou C-L, et al. Impact of a Warning CPOE System on the Inappropriate Pill Splitting of Prescribed Medications in Outpatients. http://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxyhost.library.tmc.edu/pmc/articles/PMC4257670/