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Review
. 2023 Jul 11:5:1217694.
doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1217694. eCollection 2023.

Trends in computerized provider order entry: 20-year bibliometric overview

Laura Gosselin  1   2 , Romain Leguillon  1   2   3 , Laetitia Rollin  3   4 , Emeline Lejeune  1 , Stéfan J Darmoni  1   3 , Julien Grosjean  1   3
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Trends in computerized provider order entry: 20-year bibliometric overview

Laura Gosselin et al. Front Digit Health. .

Abstract

Background: Drug-related problems (DRPs) can lead to serious health issues and have significant economic impacts on healthcare systems. One solution to address this issue is the use of computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE), which can help prevent DRPs by reducing the risk of medication errors.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis on scientific production of the past 20 years in order to describe trends in academic publishing on CPOE and to identify the major topics as well as the predominant actors (journals, countries) involved in this field.

Methods: A PubMed search was carried out to extract articles related to computerized provider order entry during the period January 1st 2003- December 31st 2022 using a specific query. Data were downloaded from PubMed in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and were processed through a dedicated parser.

Results: A total of 2,946 articles were retrieved among 623 journals. One third of these articles were published in eight journals. Publications grew strongly from 2002 to 2006, with a dip in 2008 followed by an increase again in 2009. After 2009, there follows a decreasing until 2022.The most producing countries are the USA with 51.39% of the publication over the period by France (3.80%), and Canada (3.77%). About disciplines, the top 3 is: "medical informatics" (21.62% of articles), "pharmacy" (19.04%), and "pediatrics" (6.56%).

Discussion: This study provides an overview of publication trends related to CPOE, which exhibited a significant increase in the first decade of the 21st century followed by a decline after 2009. Possible reasons for this decline include the emergence of digital health tools beyond CPOE, as well as healthcare professionals experiencing alert fatigue of the current system.

Conclusion: Future research should focus on analyzing publication trends in the field of medical informatics and decision-making tools to identify other areas of interest that may have surpassed the development of CPOE.

Keywords: CPOE (computerized physician order entry); CPOE (computerized prescriber order entry); bibliometric; bibliometric analysis; medical order entry systems.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Evolution of the number of articles per year for MEDLINE and for the query.
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