Characterization of Safety Events Involving Technology in Primary and Community Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

 The adoption of technology in health care settings is often touted as an opportunity to improve patient safety. While some adverse events can be reduced by health information technologies, technology has also been implicated in or attributed to safety events. To date, most studies on this topic have focused on acute care settings.

Objectives

 To describe voluntarily reported safety events that involved health information technology in community and primary care settings in a large Canadian health care organization.

Methods

 Two years of safety events involving health information technology (2016-2018) were extracted from an online voluntary safety event reporting system. Events from primary and community care settings were categorized according to clinical

SUBMITTER: Recsky C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10752655 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature