Computer aided prescribing: Electronic prescribing is helpful in children too

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7455.1566

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Kenneth Wong (kkywong@hkucc.hku.hk), resident,
Paul Tam, chair professor

Division of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong Medical Centre, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China

EDITOR—We concur with Ferner in his review of computer aided prescribing.1 Our centre's experience of e-prescribing started in 1996 as part of the overhaul of the clinical management system. Voluntary reporting of prescribing errors was the only mechanism before the introduction of the computer system and …