EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 272-277

  Walker, James M ^a,b   Carayon, Pascale ^c   Leveson, Nancy ^d   Paulus, Ronald A ^a   Tooker, John ^e   Chin, Homer ^f   Bothe Jr , Albert ^a   Stewart, Walter F ^g  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b EHR Safety Institute   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d Department of Engineering Systems   (United States)

^e AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

^f Clinical Information Systems   (United States)

^g GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; PATIENT SAFETY;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SAFETY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 43049162425     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2618     Document Type: Article

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