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NCT Number: NCT00225576

Statewide Implementation of Electronic Health Records

To determine the effects of Electronic Health Record use on medication error rates in primary care office practices.

Hypothesis: Adoption of Electronic Health Records through this program will reduce medication errors

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Key information

Conditions

Medication Errors Chemically-Induced Disorders Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, 02116, United States

About this study

From the practices committed to implementing EHR in early 2005, we randomly selected 15 adult community-based primary care physicians. We selected 15 similar physicians in practices that were not planning to adopt in that time period.

At each of these physicians' practices we documented rates of medication errors for one week prior to the implementation of an EHR using duplicate prescription pads. Two months after the implementation in the adopting group, allowing some time for familiarization with the tool, we collected two weeks of data using computer-based information (in the adopting arm) and duplicate prescriptions (in the non-adopting arm).

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • All patients of physicians participating in the study

Exclusion criteria

  • Any patients who are not part of a panel of a participating physician
  • Any patients who are younger than 18 years of age
  • Any patients who came in for a second visit within each data collection period

Treatment and study plan

Electronic Health Record Implementation

Other

Intervention subjects implemented electronic prescribing as part of an electronic health record implementation

Other names: eClinical Works

Primary outcomes

  1. 1. Medication errors

    Time frame: 2005-2007

  2. 2. Near misses

    Time frame: 2005-2007

  3. 3. Adverse drug events

    Time frame: 2005-2007

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Fed

Collaborators

  • Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2005
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2012
First posted
Sep 26, 2005
Registry last updated
Jan 24, 2014

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