Prescribing discrepancies likely to cause adverse drug events after patient transfer
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Electronic health records and adverse drug events after patient transfer.
BACKGROUND Our objective was to examine the frequencies of medication error and adverse drug events (ADEs) at the time of patient transfer in a system with an electronic health record (EHR) as compared with a system without an EHR. It was hypothesised that the frequencies of these events would be lower in the EHR system because of better information exchange across sites of care. METHODS 469 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2007.025957