TY - JOUR A1 - Ehteshami, Ashgar A1 - Saghaeiannejad, Sakineh A1 - Tavakoli, Nahid A1 - Sadeghi, Fahimeh A1 - Shirzad, Vahideh A1 - Kasaei, Mahtab T1 - Computerized provider order entry system: Solution to improve patient safety Y1 - 2013/7/1 JF - International Journal of Health System and Disaster Management JO - Int J Health Syst Disaster Manage SP - 180 EP - 183 VL - 1 IS - 3 UR - https://www.ijhsdm.org/article.asp?issn=2347-9019;year=2013;volume=1;issue=3;spage=180;epage=183;aulast=Ehteshami DO - 10.4103/2347-9019.129182 N2 - Introduction: Nowadays patient safety is one of the biggest concerns that health care organizations are faced with and medication errors is the most common cause of patient safety threatening. Low access to information during the decision-making and poor communication between care team members are the leading cause of medical errors that appear in most handheld systems. Therefore, this study investigated the knowledge of Physicians, nurses and pharmacy personnel about CPOE in Ayatollah Kashani Academic hospital in Isfahan, Iran to improve patient safety. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study in which 213 physicians', nurses' and pharmacy personnel's knowledge was surveyed by the questionnaire with 76 items. In Ayatollah Kashani hospital, we measured the knowledge of all 58 physicians and 10 pharmacy personnel about CPOE, but we sampled nurses by Morgan table and the 95% confidence level (144 nurses). Obtained data were analyzed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software (SPSS 16) and descriptive statistics were used to examine measures of compliance. Results: The findings indicated that knowledge of physicians, nurses and pharmacy personnel about CPOE was relatively desirable (65%). Their knowledge about the CPOE roles in medical prescription, dispensing, administration, time required in providing care, productivity, patient safety, and costs were 69%, 58%, 69%, 62%, 69%, 77% and 64%, respectively. Conclusion: Knowledge of physicians, nurses and pharmacy staff about CPOE was desirable; therefore, to improve the present situation, education, investment and infrastructure provision are necessary. ER -