Overcoming Barriers to the Implementation of a Pharmacy Bar Code Scanning System for Medication Dispensing: A Case Study

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 645-650

  Nanji, Karen C ^a,b   Cina, Jennifer ^d   Patel, Nirali ^d   Churchill, William ^d   Gandhi, Tejal K ^c   Poon, Eric G ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HOSPITAL PHARMACY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL STAFF; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BOSTON; CLINICAL PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES;

EID: 69549124139     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3107     Document Type: Article

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