Étude pilote sur le contenu du dossier pharmacologique informatisé partagé entre établissements de santé

Thirteen hospitals (41% - response rate) of different missions (four teaching, six general, two long term et one psychiatry) participated by providing ten labels according to their local practice. Data collected show a wide disparity regarding the number of fields used to describe the prescription, the number of lines (three to ten) and characters (320 to 700), the font (e.g. only one hospital uses Tallman lettering), the data structure (e.g. variable position of the route), the nature of information (e.g. inscription of the commercial name of the product really dispensed rather than usually dispensed, numerous comments for a same drug), writing syntax (e.g. mg = mL vs mL = mg), units of measure used (e.g. mg vs g). There is a large disparity in the label content. Safe data sharing between hospital and provincial information systems cannot be done unless displaying complete information available on a given label rather than sharing field-to-field data, while waiting for data standardization of writing and management practices in hospitals.