Evaluating the impact of health IT on medication safety

Evidence-Based Health Informatics: Promoting Safety and Efficiency through Scientific Methods and Ethical Policy

Volumn 222, Issue , 2016, Pages 195-205

  Seidling, Hanna M ^a   Bates, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support; Complex intervention; Computerized physician order entry; Medication error; Medication safety

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEALTH;

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; COMPLEX INTERVENTION; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ORDERS;

ERRORS;

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICATION ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION ERRORS;

EID: 84980047778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-635-4-195     Document Type: Chapter

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