Prevent Medication Errors 
The potential benefits for patients, payers and providers led national experts in health care quality and safety to recommend CPOE as one of the Leapfrog Group’s recommended practices. Recent research shows that if this practice were implemented in all urban hospitals in the U.S., as many as 907,600 serious medication errors could be prevented annually. CPOE also reduces length of stay and turnaround times for laboratory, pharmacy and radiology requests. This measure indicates whether a hospital has, or is in the process of developing, a CPOE system.
Reporting Period:
As of July 1 2009
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n: Sample size of patient population measured
N: Total patient population measured (not a sample)
Use caution when drawing conclusions for providers/organizations that have a small sample size
(generally considered 25 cases or less).
Disclaimer: Measures reported by WCHQ healthcare
organizations represent a specific aspect of care in relation to an
evidence-based standard, but are not clinical guidelines and do not establish
standards of care.
