Workarounds to Barcode Medication Administration Systems: Their Occurrences, Causes, and Threats to Patient Safety

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 408-423

  Koppel, Ross ^a   Wetterneck, Tosha ^a   Telles, Joel Leon ^b   Karsh, Ben Tzion ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Main Line Health Heart Center   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARCODE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DEVICE; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG LABELING; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CLINICAL PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; NURSING PROCESS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 45849139772     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2616     Document Type: Article

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