Electronic health record usability issues and potential contribution to patient harm

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 319, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1276-1278

  Howe, Jessica L ^a   Adams, Katharine T ^a   Hettinger, A Zachary ^a   Ratwani, Raj M ^a  

^a National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LETTER; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MORTALITY; PATIENT HARM; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PENNSYLVANIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; DATA INTEROPERABILITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; WORKFLOW;

DATABASES AS TOPIC; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH INFORMATION INTEROPERABILITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; PATIENT HARM; RISK MANAGEMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 85044480242     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.1171     Document Type: Letter

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