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. 2010 Dec 3;18(1):17–23. doi: 10.1136/jamia.2010.006130

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