Electronic prescribing within an electronic health record reduces ambulatory prescribing errors

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 470-478

  Abramson, Erika L ^a,b   Barrón, Yolanda ^a   Quaresimo, Jill ^c   Kaushal, Rainu ^a,b,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Taconic Independent Practice Association   (United States)

^d Division of Quality and Clinical Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

AMBULATORY CARE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MEDICATION ERRORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80053240493     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1553-7250(11)37060-2     Document Type: Article

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