“Study results suggest e-prescribing systems may lead to unintended adverse outcomes, including medication errors, according to research published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
For their study, researchers collected data on medication errors over a five-month period at a large acute-care hospital in the United Kingdom. Medication incidents were then categorized into two groups: sociotechnical incidents (human interactions with the e-prescribing system) and non-sociotechnical incidents.”
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Jaimie Oh, Hospital Review, 23 May 2011
Article (Redwood 2011)
