Improving quality and safety of care using technovigilance: An ethnographic case study of secondary use of data from an electronic prescribing and decision support system

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 424-454

  Dixon Woods, Mary ^a   Redwood, Sabi ^b   Leslie, Myles ^c   Minion, Joel ^a   Martin, Graham P ^a   Coleman, Jamie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic health records; ethnography; meaningful use; medication errors; patient safety; quality of care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONSTANT COMPARATIVE METHOD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; EMERGENCY CARE; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICATION ERROR; OBSERVATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEPSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ETHNOGRAPHY; MEANINGFUL USE; MEDICATION ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY OF CARE;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ENGLAND; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION ERRORS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PUBLISHING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84884230942     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12021     Document Type: Article

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