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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2010 Aug 9;170(15):1331–1336. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.244

Table 2.

Number of orders per day in three groups of drugs before and after the start of the CPOE warning system.

Medications Recommended Not to Order Medications Recommended for Dose Reduction Medications Not Flagged
Before After P Value Before After P Value Before After P Value
Orders/day 11.56 ±0.36 9.94 ±0.12 6.09 ±0.20 6.87 ±0.08 5.40 ±0.20 5.55 ±0.07
Orders/total patients/day 0.070 ±0.002 0.054 ±0.001 <0.001 0.037 ± 0.001 0.037 ± 0.001 0.71 0.033 ± 0.001 0.030 ± 0.001 0.03
Orders/new patients/day 0.333 ±0.001 0.263 ±0.003 <0.001 0.182 ± 0.006 0.186 ± 0.002 0.51 0.158 ± 0.005 0.148 ± 0.002 0.08

Data are presented as mean ±SE.