Using information technology to reduce rates of medication errors in hospitals

By David W. Bates. British medical journal, 2000

509 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Health Information Management, Medical Laboratory Technology

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In Emergency Medical Services

1. R. Holden
2. Ben-Tzion Karsh
3. Ritu Agarwal
4. Richard I. Cook
5. Tosha B. Wetterneck
6. Corey M. Angst
7. Marta L. Render
8. Emily S. Patterson

In Health Information Management

1. R. Holden
2. Ben-Tzion Karsh
3. Tosha B. Wetterneck
4. Ross Koppel
5. V. Sambamurthy
6. Ken Kelley
7. Ritu Agarwal
8. Richard I. Cook

In Medical Laboratory Technology

1. R. Holden
2. Ben-Tzion Karsh
3. Tosha B. Wetterneck
4. Ann Schoofs Hundt
5. Pascale Carayon

Citations in the corpus

• Research Paper: Improving Patient Safety by Identifying Side Effects from Introducing Bar Coding in Medication Administration (2002, background): “These systems, including computerized physician order entry, automated dispensing systems, and bar code reconciliation, are believed to reduce reliance on memory, increase access to information, and increase compliance with “best practice” procedures.”
• Technology Evaluation: Workarounds to Barcode Medication Administration Systems: Their Occurrences, Causes, and Threats to Patient Safety (2008, background): “and 4% to 60% of pediatric patient medication errors.”
• Social Contagion and Information Technology Diffusion: The Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in U.S. Hospitals (2010, background): “Bates (2000) suggests several reasons for the slow diffusion ranging from lack of evidence showing the impact of EMRs, to providers’ fragmented internal structure, to poor funding for research, to lack of demand from the health-care industry, and finally to financial constraints.”
• Immediate benefits realized following implementation of physician order entry at an academic medical center. (2002, background): “Efforts to improve patient care quality, lower health care costs, and reduce clinical errors by providing decision support at the point of care have focused increasingly on the application of information technology to the patient care process.(1,2) Physician order entry (POE) has been promoted by gr”
• Human factors systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety (2013, background): “Impact of health IT on work system, care process and patient safety In many countries, health IT is seen as a significant means of improving healthcare quality and patient safety (Bates, 2000; Bates and Gawande, 2003).”