How Laboratory Information System Improves Patient Safety

Patient Safety Behavior in Physicians: How is it Predicted?

Background: Patient safety is a serious global public health issue. Estimates show that every day many patients are harmed while receiving hospital care. Health care staff plays a key role in providing quality and safe patient care, especially physicians who are main members of the medical team and a critical element in patient safety efforts. Objective: ...

Toward an Optimal Patient Safety Information System

This study was designed to understand the “landscape” of hospital incident reporting systems and to examine the use of health information technology to improve reporting, data analysis, and learning from errors in health care. To date, no systematic estimates exist of the characteristics of reporting systems operated by U.S. hospitals or of how these systems are being used. More research is nee...

The laboratory approach to patient safety.

edical errors have a great impact on patient outcomes, since they can cause patients serious injury or even result in death. In 2000, in U.S. hospitals, medical errors were estimated to cause between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths annually, making preventable medical errors the eighth leading cause of death in the nation, with an estimated cost of $17 billion. Despite all efforts, it appears that the...

Toward an Optimal Patient Safety Information System (TOPSIS)

Laboratory Information Management System

A computerized Material Information Management System (LIMS) is developed. This intranet-based information management system is a state-of-the-art research project where material engineers working closely with computer and operations research specialists to develop a comprehensive and fully functional Material Information Management System for the New Jersey Departments of Transportation (NJDOT...