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Reduction in medication errors in hospitals due to adoption of computerized provider order entry systems.

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The findings suggest that CPOE can substantially reduce the frequency of medication errors in inpatient acute-care settings; however, it is unclear whether this translates into reduced harm for patients.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.The article was published on 2013-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 283 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electronic prescribing.

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Health Information Technology: An Updated Systematic Review With a Focus on Meaningful Use

TL;DR: This review examines recent evidence that relates health IT functionalities prescribed in meaningful use regulations to health care quality, safety, and efficiency, and abstracted information about the following: study design; clinical setting, health care conditions, and aspects of care assessed.
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The Impact of Rudeness on Medical Team Performance: A Randomized Trial.

TL;DR: R rudeness had adverse consequences on the diagnostic and procedural performance of the NICU team members and information-sharing mediated the adverse effect of rudeness on diagnostic performance, and help-seeking mediated the effect of Rudeness on procedural performance.
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The impact of electronic health records on healthcare quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

TL;DR: EHR system, when properly implemented, can improve the quality of healthcare, increasing time efficiency and guideline adherence and reducing medication errors and ADEs and strategies for EHR implementation should be recommended and promoted.
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TL;DR: Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
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Effect of computerized physician order entry and a team intervention on prevention of serious medication errors.

TL;DR: Physician computer order entry decreased the rate of nonintercepted serious medication errors by more than half, although this decrease was larger for potential ADEs than for errors that actually resulted in an ADE.
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The costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients

TL;DR: The substantial costs of ADEs to hospitals justify investment in efforts to prevent these events, and estimates of annual costs attributable to all ADEs and preventable ADEs for a 700-bed teaching hospital are $5.6 million and $2.8 million are conservative because they do not include the costs of injuries to patients or malpractice costs.
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