The precarious gap between information technology and patient safety: Lessons from medication systems

A Socio-cultural Perspective on Patient Safety

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 115-130

  Pirnejad, Habibollah ^a   Bal, Roland ^b  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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