Numerous health care systems are designed without consideration of user-centered design
guidelines. Consequently, systems are created ad hoc, users are dissatisfied and often …

We reviewed the English and Dutch literature on evaluations of patient care information
systems that require data entry by health care professionals published from 1991 to 2001 …

Medical error reduction is an international issue, as is the implementation of patient care
information systems (PCISs) as a potential means to achieving it. As researchers conducting …

Context.—Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a significant and costly cause of injury during
hospitalization. Objectives.—To evaluate the efficacy of 2 interventions for preventing …

ContextHospital computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems are widely regarded
as the technical solution to medication ordering errors, the largest identified source of …

Information technology can improve patient safety by preventing errors and facilitating rapid
response to adverse events. Computerized prescribing by physicians reduces the rate of …

Background and Methods Optimal decisions about the use of antibiotics and other
antiinfective agents in critically ill patients require access to a large amount of complex …

Background: Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems can help hospitals improve
health care quality, but they can also introduce new problems. The extent to which hospitals …

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) …

Several analyses have detected substantial quality problems throughout the health care
system. Information technology has consistently been identified as an important component …