Background There is considerable international interest in exploiting the potential of digital
solutions to enhance the quality and safety of health care. Implementations of transformative …

Abstract Background The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) Act subsidizes implementation by hospitals of electronic health records with …

Objective To synthesize the literature on clinical decision-support systems'(CDSS) impact on
healthcare practitioner performance and patient outcomes. Design Literature search on …

The objective of this systematic review is to analyse the relative risk reduction on medication
error and adverse drug events (ADE) by computerized physician order entry systems …

Checklists are common tools used in many industries. Unfortunately, their adoption in the
field of medicine has been limited to equipment operations or part of specific algorithms. Yet …

Medication errors in critical care are frequent, serious, and predictable. Critically ill patients
are prescribed twice as many medications as patients outside of the intensive care unit (ICU) …

Background Increased investments are being made for electronic medical records (EMRs) in
Canada. There is a need to learn from earlier EMR studies on their impact on physician …

PROBLEM. Nurse–physician communication affects patient safety. Such communication has
been well studied using a variety of survey and observational methods; however, missing …

Previous reviews have examined evidence of the impact of CPOE on medication errors, but
have used highly variable definitions of “error”. We attempted to answer a very focused …

Background Computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems are
electronic prescribing strategies that are increasingly used to improve patient safety …