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Clinical benefits
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A reduction in the risk of medication errors.
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Accurate and up-to-date locally defined drug databases.
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Access to clinical decision support and medicines information aiding the choice of medicines, with alerts such as duplications, drug-drug interactions, etc.
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Patient-specific alerts such as overdose warnings and allergy alerts.
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Fully legible prescriptions.
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Alerts for contra-indications, allergic reactions and drug interactions.
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Guidance for inexperienced prescribers.
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Discharge prescriptions.
Organisational benefits
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Computerised entry and management of prescriptions.
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Computerised communication between hospital wards/departments and pharmacies.
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Improvements in existing work processes.
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A robust audit trail for the entire medicines process.
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Reduction in paper-based process problems.