Decreased in-hospital mortality rate following implementation of a comprehensive electronic medical record system.

We documented evidence of a clinically important decrease in in-hospital mortality rate following the implementation of a modern comprehensive EMR system in an Australian paediatric teaching hospital. The study does not prove a causal relationship, and it is possible that other factors explain some, or all, of this difference, but no changes in the hospital population or other major interventions were identified as alternative explanations for this observed change.