An effort to improve electronic health record medication list accuracy between visits: Patients' and physicians' response

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-160

  Staroselsky, Maria ^a   Volk, Lynn A ^a   Tsurikova, Ruslana ^a   Newmark, Lisa P ^a   Lippincott, Margaret ^a   Litvak, Irina ^a   Kittler, Anne ^a   Wang, Tiffany ^a   Wald, Jonathan ^a,c   Bates, David W ^a,b,c,d  

^a PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized patient medical records; Medications; Patient access to records; Personal health records; Quality of care; Safety

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PORTALS;

COMPUTERIZED PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT ACCESS TO RECORDS; PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS;

PATIENT MONITORING;

CARBAMAZEPINE; NAPROXEN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG MONITORING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 38549111248     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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