In a recent study reported in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, prescribing errors occur more frequently in community-based practices than previously reported, but the error rate was lower for adopters of an e-prescribing system compared with nonadopters. Has your practice or hospital adopted an e-prescribing system?
Paul E. Sax, MD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Clinical Director, HIV Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts