Table 4.

Outcomes of oral chemotherapy electronic prescribing interventions in hospital and ambulatory care settings

Reference	Study design	Outcomes of interest	Impact of electronic prescribing on outcomes	Sample size and statistical analysis
Weingart et al31	Cohort study	Utilization of non-mandatory entry fields, eg, diagnosis and intent of therapy Dose limit alerts Prescriber actions following alert generation	Utilization of diagnosis field, 46% Utilization of therapy intent field, 13% Dose limit alerts triggered for 6% of prescriptions; 4% of prescriptions with dose limit alerts were aborted	6,673 prescriptions in the post-implementation phase. Statistical tests were conducted using statistical software but were not specified
Collins and Elsaid25	Before and after design	Prescribing error rate using handwritten prescriptions versus CPOE prescriptions	OR 0.31, 95% CI 0.11–0.89	412 handwritten prescriptions 126 CPOE prescriptions Fisher’s exact test

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; CPOE, computerized provider order entry; OR, odds ratio.