Safety huddles to proactively identify and address electronic health record safety.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Methods to identify and study safety risks of electronic health records (EHRs) are underdeveloped and largely depend on limited end-user reports. "Safety huddles" have been found useful in creating a sense of collective situational awareness that increases an organization's capacity to respond to safety concerns. We explored the use of safety huddles for identifying and learning about EHR-related safety concerns.

Design

Data were obtained from daily safety huddle briefing notes recorded at a single midsized tertiary-care hospital in the United States over 1 year. Huddles were attended by key administrative, clinical, and information technology staff. We conducted a content analysis of huddle notes to identify what EHR-related safety concerns were discussed. We expa

SUBMITTER: Menon S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5391729 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature