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The authors suggest that overdependence on technology can result in unintended medication errors and affect physicians prescription wiring skills. This study assessed the completeness, legibility, and accuracy of physicians' handwritten prescriptions during an unintentional crash of a long-running CPOE system at a large hospital. <ref name="Creating Physicians Failed"> Hsu, C., Chou, C., Chen, T., Ho, C., Lee, C., & Chou, Y. (2015). Physicians failed to write flawless prescriptions when computerized physician order entry system crashed. Clinical Therapeutics, 37(5), 1076-1080. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25841544 </ref>
  
 
<ref name="Creating Physicians Failed"> Hsu, C., Chou, C., Chen, T., Ho, C., Lee, C., & Chou, Y. (2015). Physicians failed to write flawless prescriptions when computerized physician order entry system crashed. Clinical Therapeutics, 37(5), 1076-1080. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25841544 </ref>
 
 
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Revision as of 14:00, 15 November 2015

This is a review of a CPOE study conducted in Taiwan and published in Clinical Therapeutics in 2015.

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The authors suggest that overdependence on technology can result in unintended medication errors and affect physicians prescription wiring skills. This study assessed the completeness, legibility, and accuracy of physicians' handwritten prescriptions during an unintentional crash of a long-running CPOE system at a large hospital. [1]

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  1. Hsu, C., Chou, C., Chen, T., Ho, C., Lee, C., & Chou, Y. (2015). Physicians failed to write flawless prescriptions when computerized physician order entry system crashed. Clinical Therapeutics, 37(5), 1076-1080. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25841544