Electronic health records and patient safety: should we be discouraged?

Affiliations

Editorial

Thomas H Payne. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015 Apr.

. 2015 Apr;24(4):239-40.

doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004039. Epub 2015 Feb 20.

¹ Department of Medicine, UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Keywords: Healthcare quality improvement; Patient safety; Quality improvement.

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Computerised physician order entry-related medication errors: analysis of reported errors and vulnerability testing of current systems.
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