The impact of a hospital electronic prescribing and medication administration system on medication administration safety: an observational study
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The impact of a hospital electronic prescribing and medication administration system on medication administration safety: an observational study
BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to explore the impact of the implementation of an electronic prescribing and medication administration system (ePA) on the safety of medication administration in an inpatient hospital setting. Objectives were to compare the prevalence and types of: 1) medication administration errors, and 2) documentation discrepancies, between a paper and an ePA system. Addi...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-017-2462-2