A clinical information system reduces medication errors in paediatric intensive care.

Purpose: To determine the effect of electronic prescribing (EP) with a clinical information system (Intellivue Clinical Information Portfolio, Philips, UK) on prescribing errors and omitted doses in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Methods: Prospective audit of prescribing errors and omitted doses for 96 h periods in three epochs: (1) before implementation of EP, (2) 1 week and (3) 6 months later.

Results: There was a non-significant reduction in prescribing errors: 8.