Clinicians' evaluation of computer-assisted medication summarization of electronic medical records.

ABSTRACT: Each year thousands of patients die of avoidable medication errors. When a patient is admitted to, transferred within, or discharged from a clinical facility, clinicians should review previous medication orders, current orders and future plans for care, and reconcile differences if there are any. If medication reconciliation is not accurate and systematic, medication errors such as omissions, duplications, dosing errors, or drug interactions may occur and cause harm. Computer-assisted medication applications showed promise as an intervention to reduce medication summarization inaccuracies and thus avoidable medication errors. In this study, a computer-assisted medication summarization application, designed to abstract and represent multi-source time-oriented medication data, was introduced

SUBMITTER: Zhu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4063892 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature