A perennial task: patient safety through modern technology
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Improving patient safety through information technology.
Health information technology (HIT) is generally accepted as the solution for the nation's medical error crisis. Although limited studies suggest the importance of using HIT in the process of medication management, research has failed to adequately describe how HIT actually works in capturing medication error data and improving patient safety within a healthcare system.1-3 The aim of our study ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1387-1307,1573-2614
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-014-9602-6