Three key levers for achieving resilience in medication delivery with information technology

Journal of Patient Safety

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-38

  Patterson, Emily S ^a,b   Woods, David D ^b   Roth, Emilie M ^c   Cook, Richard I ^d   Wears, Robert L ^e   Render, Marta L ^a,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Roth Cognitive Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bar coding; CPOE; Human factor; Medical informatics; Medication error

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748306095     PISSN: 15498417     EISSN: 15498425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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