Background Nurses are expected to be the largest users of electronic medical records in
hospitals. Literature specific to measuring the impacts of an electronic medical record …

Background Transition of care on admission to the hospital and between clinical areas are
risk points for medication errors. All type of medication errors can be reduced by improving …

Purpose Failure to obtain an accurate medication history can adversely affect patient care in
the emergency department (ED) and propagate errors into the inpatient and outpatient …

Methods: An algorithmic analysis of discharge medication lists and confirmation by clinician
reviewers was used to find the prevalence of the 6 discharge MREs at 2 pediatric hospitals …

Background: Many seriously ill and frail inpatients receive potentially inappropriate or
harmful medications and do not receive medications for symptoms of advanced illness. We …

Objective (1) To describe the usage of medication data from the Health Information
Exchange (HIE) at the health care system level in the province of Quebec;(2) To assess the …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Medication reconciliation is a complex, but necessary,
process to prevent patient harm from medication discrepancies. Locally, the steps of …

Transition of care on admission to the hospital and between clinical areas is risk points for
medication errors. All type of medication errors can be reduced by improving communication …

Background Pseudorandomized testing can be applied to perform rigorous yet practical
evaluations of clinical decision support tools. We apply this methodology to an interruptive …

Nurses have never before had so much data at the bedside, nor the complex patients and
practice environments found in acute care settings today. Processing large amounts of …