Table 3.
Summary of the percentage of unapproved medication abbreviations in handwritten notes among interns exposed to no alerts, hard stop alerts, or auto-correction alerts in an electronic note writing program
Follow-up time | Control group | Hard stop alert group | Auto-correction alert group | ||||||
Total no of opportunities for error | No of unapproved medication abbreviations | Percentage of unapproved medication abbreviations | Total no of opportunities for error | No of unapproved medication abbreviations | Percentage of unapproved medication abbreviations | Total no of opportunities for error | No of unapproved medication abbreviations | Percentage of unapproved medication abbreviations | |
Quarter 1 (baseline) | 317 | 191 | 0.60 | 426 | 214 | 0.50 | 231 | 155 | 0.67 |
Quarter 2 | 386 | 188 | 0.49 | 299 | 79 | 0.26 | 182 | 99 | 0.54 |
Quarter 3 | 281 | 63 | 0.22 | 373 | 31 | 0.08 | 252 | 150 | 0.60 |
Quarter 4 | 366 | 49 | 0.13 | 324 | 36 | 0.11 | 271 | 94 | 0.35 |