The evidence for the effectiveness of safety alerts in electronic patient medication record systems at the point of pharmacy order entry: A systematic review

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ojeleye, Oluwagbemileke ^a   Avery, Anthony ^a   Gupta, Vaibhav ^a   Boyd, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support; Drug alert; Electronic patient medication record system; Medicine supply; Pharmacy computer system; Pharmacy order entry system; Safety alert; Safety feature; Safety warning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT SAFETY; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 84879471437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-69     Document Type: Review

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