Improving Order Sets at Boston Medical Center 0

Using order sets within an electronic medical record (EMR) has been shown to improve outcomes, including in-hospital mortality, adherence to evidence-based guidelines, and reduction in human error.

However, we found that order set usage was low at Boston Medical Center for variety of reasons.

The ‘GI Bleed’ (GIB) order set, in particular, had several incorrect and irrelevant orders despite being a potentially high-use order set, and was therefore chosen as a pilot case for improvement.