The impact of electronic medication administration records in a residential aged care home

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 966-973

  Qian, Siyu ^a   Yu, Ping ^a   Hailey, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benefit; Electronic medication administration records; Nursing home; Process; Time; Unintended adverse consequence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HOUSING; OUTAGES; PROCESSING;

BENEFIT; ELECTRONIC MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION RECORDS; NURSING HOMES; TIME; UNINTENDED ADVERSE CONSEQUENCE;

NURSING;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PAPER; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; READING; REGISTERED NURSE; RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE HOME; RESIDENTIAL HOME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORK EXPERIENCE; WRITING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME FOR THE AGED; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICATION ERRORS; NURSES; NURSING RECORDS; PAPER; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 84942550288     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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