Medication safety messages for patients via the web portal: The MedCheck intervention

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 161-168

  Weingart, Saul N ^a,b,d   Hamrick, Hope E ^b   Tutkus, Sharon ^b   Carbo, Alexander ^b,d   Sands, Daniel Z ^b,d   Tess, Anjala ^b,d   Davis, Roger B ^b,d   Bates, David W ^c,d   Phillips, Russell S ^b,d  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Communication; Internet; Medical errors; Patient physician relations

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; INTERNET; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT MONITORING;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONS;

PORTALS;

ATENOLOL; ATORVASTATIN; BUDESONIDE; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CITALOPRAM; CODEINE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; GABAPENTIN; GUAIFENESIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; METFORMIN; NARCOTIC AGENT; NICOTINIC ACID; NIFEDIPINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PARACETAMOL; PAROXETINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TOPIRAMATE; TRAZODONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CONSTIPATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPEPSIA; E-MAIL; EXPERIENCE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GROGGY; HEARTBURN; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; INCREASED APPETITE; INSOMNIA; INTERNET; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICTURITION; NAUSEA; NOSE DISEASE; PAIN; PATIENT; POSITIONAL DIZZINESS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCROTAL PAIN; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SNEEZING; SOMNOLENCE; STOMACH PRESSURE; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; VOMITING; WEB BROWSER; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 38549147032     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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