The current project is to empirically assess some of the core anticipated benefits of the electronic medication management system on the inpatient wards at The Children’s Hospital Westmead. Rigorous evidence demonstrating the effects of eMM/eMR systems on safety is limited, especially in paediatric oncology settings. This project is the first of its kind – it will provide invaluable practical evidence to inform future implementations of eMM/eMR for Oncology Patients (and other patients by comparison), both in Australia and internationally, while also generating new evidence regarding medication safety and workload in oncology inpatients.
The project has three aims:- to quantify the safety and effectiveness of an eMM/eMR system to reduce prescribing errors, including adverse drug events, in oncology; to identify eMM system-related problems and areas where system redesign is necessary; and to quantify investigation/surveillance test, supportive care test and medication-ordering workload for Oncology patients and compare this with workloads for patients in other hospital areas.
Started: 1 July 2017
Ending: 30 June 2019
