Inpatient EHR User Experience and Hospital EHR Safety Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite the broad adoption and optimization of electronic health record (EHR) systems across the continuum of care, serious usability and safety problems persist.

Objective

To assess whether EHR safety performance is associated with EHR frontline user experience in a national sample of hospitals.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study included all US adult hospitals that used the National Quality Forum Leapfrog Health IT Safety Measure and also used the ARCH Collaborative EHR User experience survey from January 1, 2017, to January 1, 2019. Data analysis was performed from September 2020 to November 2022.

Main outcomes and measures

The primary outcomes were hospital performance on the Leapfrog Health IT Safety measure (overall an

SUBMITTER: Classen DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495862 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature