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Impact of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) on PICU prescribing errors

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Acknowledgments

We thank Koos J. G. Jansen and the PICE (Pediatric Intensive Care Evaluation) database for providing patient admission data. We thank Hanneke J. H. den Breeijen and the Utrecht Patient Oriented Database (UPOD) for extensive help with data management. We thank Nicole J. M. Willard, Chantal Ricken, Bianca W. J. Bakkum, Ruud van der Noll, Eva V. A. Mulder, Tessa van der Maaden, Esther Kuipers, Stefan W. C. van Roosmalen, Cynthia Lagrand, and Annemieke D. M. van der Kaaij, at the time master’s degree students of the Utrecht University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, for collecting much of the data.

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This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University Medical Center Utrecht.

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  1. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, D.00.2.04, University Medical Center Utrecht, P. O. Box 85500, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Barbara Maat, Toine C. G. Egberts & Carin M. A. Rademaker

  2. Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, KG.02.301.0, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, P. O. Box 85090, 3508 AB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Casper W. Bollen & Adrianus J. van Vught

  3. Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, P. O. Box 80082, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Toine C. G. Egberts

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Maat, B., Bollen, C.W., van Vught, A.J. et al. Impact of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) on PICU prescribing errors. Intensive Care Med 40, 458–459 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-013-3193-4

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