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The Leapfrog Group is a coalition of large employers in the U.S. including General Motors, Ford, and General Electric. The Leapfrog Group attempts to encourage hospitals to adoption patient safety practices including computerized physician order entry. This survey was the 2002-2003 version of the survey that examined use of CPOE in 1189 hospitals across the U.S. It was not a nationally representative sample, but it was broad-based and sampled hospitals of all sizes from across the U.S. The survey focused on detailed questions about CPOE use. It has been rated high in methodology and functionalities but is limited in that it is not a nationally representative sample of U.S. hospitals.
The Leapfrog Group
- Survey
2003
- No
2002
- United States
- Hospital
- Prescribing
- ICT use (generic)
- ICT availability
- eHealth/IT investment
- Computerized provider/physician/prescriber order entry (CPOE) systems
Not representative on a national level
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