Design of admission medication reconciliation technology: A human factors approach to requirements and prototyping

Health Environments Research and Design Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 30-48

  Lesselroth, Blake J ^a,d   Adams, Kathleen ^a   Tallett, Stephanie ^a   Wood, Scott D ^b   Keeling, Amy ^c   Cheng, Karen ^c   Church, Victoria L ^a   Felder, Robert ^a   Tran, Hanna ^a  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b The VHA Office of Informatics and Analytics Informatics Patient Safety   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based design; Human factors; Patientcentered care; Safety; Technology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACIST; WORKFLOW;

HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION RECONCILIATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHARMACISTS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84884706697     PISSN: 19375867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/193758671300600304     Document Type: Article

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