In its landmark reports on quality of medical care, [1,2] the Institute of Medicine brought attention to the frequency of errors in medicine, and offered several clear suggestions for how we might ...
Objectives: To estimate the current uses level of ambulatorycomputerized physician order entry (A-CPOE) among physiciansand to examine the relationship of managed care penetration aswell as other ...
"Overdose Kills Girl at Children's Hospital" reads the headline in the April 20 Washington Post, signaling yet another death from one of the simplest of medication ...
Doctors are famous for sloppy scribbling — and handwritten prescriptions lead to thousands of medication errors each year. Electronics to the rescue: U.S. hospitals that switched to computerized ...