The Journal of Pediatrics is unusual in that it often allows full text viewing of thier articles online. Unfortunately, the November issue is the latest one posted, but by January we could possibly all be able to read it and judge for ourselves. I will send a note on to someone active in the ACP to see if perhaps that could be one of the free articles.
On Monday 05 December 2005 04:33 pm, Ruben Safir wrote: In fact, this sounds like a case where the health care facility ignores its pharmacists, causing an increased death rate. Ruben On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:16, Ignacio Valdes wrote: > The December 2005 issue of the journal Pediatrics has a report that > found a coincident increase in mortality after implementing a > 'Commercially Sold' Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system. > The increased mortality may have been due to delays in medication and > IV administration in the ICU caused by the new system: '...Although > CPOE technology holds great promise as a tool to reduce human error > during health care delivery our unanticipated finding suggests that > when implementing CPOE systems, institutions should continue to > evaluate mortality effects, in addition to medication error rates, for > children who are dependent on time-sensitive therapies.' The study > notes that mortality rate studies on CPOE as opposed to adverse drug > events(ADEs) studies has not been done before. The CPOE in the study > DID reduce ADE's as expected. > > Additional summary of the article here: > http://www.linuxmednews.com/1133812163/index_html > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
