A nationwide medication incidents reporting system in the netherlands

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 799-804

  Cheung, Ka Chun ^a   Van Den Bemt, Patricia M L A ^b   Bouvy, Marcel L ^c   Wensing, Michel ^a   De Smet, Peter A G M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITORING; ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; CENTRAL MEDICATION INCIDENT REGISTRATION; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MEDICATION ERROR; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCESS DESIGN;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICATION ERRORS; NETHERLANDS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 81055135185     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000191     Document Type: Article

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