Electronic health records and patient safety: Co-occurrence of early EHR implementation with patient safety practices in primary care settings

Applied Clinical Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 136-147

  Tanner, C ^a   Gans, D ^d   White, J ^a   Nath, R ^b   Pohl, J ^c  

^a Michigan Public Health Institute   (United States)

^b Center for Health Information and Data Analytics ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d MEDICAL GROUP MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health records and systems; Organizational change management; Safety culture; Sociotechnical aspects of information technology; Workflows and human interactions

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UTILIZATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84982676407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18690327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2014-11-RA-0099     Document Type: Article

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