Medical error management and the role of information technology-A new approach to investigating medical handover in acute care settings

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 124, Issue , 2006, Pages 679-684

  Yee, Kwang Chien ^a   Wong, Ming Chao ^b   Turner, Paul ^b  

^a ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

IS Methodology; Medical Errors; Medical Handover; Medical Informatics

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE;

CLINICAL PRACTICES; CONSTRUCTING MODELS; HANDOVER; IS METHODOLOGIES; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; RESEARCH PAPERS;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CRITICAL CARE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TASMANIA;

EID: 39049180459     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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