The Wall Street Journal has reported that a study conducted at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford concludes what many in the industry have believed for years; that the implementation of CPOE can have a meaningful and immediate result on patient outcomes.
The study found that monthly mortality rates dropped by 20% to .7 from 1 per 100 discharges. While this seems a small factor, it is estimated that 36 fewer deaths occurred over the 18 months that the CPOE system was studied after being launched which is quite material.
Resources:
Read the WSJ article here,
Access the study on the Journal of American Academy of Pediatrics site here.
