Investigators at Children’s Hospital Detail Findings in Electronic Medical Records
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week — Current study results on Electronic Medical Records have been published. According to news reporting originating from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The study aims to develop a core set of pediatric drug-drug interaction (DDI) pairs for which electronic alerts should be presented to prescribers during the ordering process. A clinical decision support working group composed of Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) members was developed.”
Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Children’s Hospital, “CHA Pharmacists and Chief Medical Information Officers participated. Consensus was reached on a core set of 19 DDI pairs that should be presented to pediatric prescribers during the order process. We have provided a core list of 19 high value drug pairs for electronic drug-drug interaction alerts to be recommended for inclusion as high value alerts in prescriber order entry software used with a pediatric patient population.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We believe this list represents the most important pediatric drug interactions for practical implementation within computerized prescriber order entry systems.”
For more information on this research see: Core Drug-Drug Interaction Alerts for Inclusion in Pediatric Electronic Health Records With Computerized Prescriber Order Entry. Journal of Patient Safety, 2014;10(1):59-63. Journal of Patient Safety can be contacted at: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 530 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3621, USA. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins – www.lww.com; Journal of Patient Safety – journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/pages/default.aspx)
The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M.B. Harper, Boston Childrens Hosp, Dept. of Pharm, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Additional authors for this research include C.A. Longhurst, T.L. McGuire, R. Tarrago, B.R. Desai and A. Patterson.
