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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (138)

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•Hospitals (319)

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COMMENTARY

Making inpatient medication reconciliation patient centered, clinically relevant and implementable: a consensus statement on key principles and necessary first steps.

Greenwald JL, Halasyamani L, Greene J, et al. J Hosp Med. 2010;5:477-485.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of electronic health record systems: recommendations from AMIA.

Middleton B, Bloomrosen M, Dente MA, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 Jan 25; [Epub ahead of print].

BOOK/REPORT

Health Information Technology in the United States: The Information Base for Progress.

Blumenthal D, DesRoches C, Donelan K, et al. Washington, DC: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; 2006.

COMMENTARY

Getting moving on patient safety—harnessing electronic data for safer care.

Jha AK, Classen DC. N Engl J Med 2011;365:1756-1758.

STUDY

The effect of health information technology on quality in U.S. hospitals.

McCullough JS, Casey M, Moscovice I, Prasad S. Health Aff (Millwood). 2010;29:647-654.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Challenges in ethics, safety, best practices, and oversight regarding HIT vendors, their customers, and patients: a report of an AMIA special task force.

Goodman KW, Berner ES, Dente MA, et al; AMIA Board of Directors. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18:77-81.

STUDY

Improving medication safety in primary care using electronic health records.

Nemeth LS, Wessell AM. J Patient Saf. 2010;6:238-243.

STUDY

Connected care: reducing errors through automated vital signs data upload.

Smith LB, Banner L, Lozano D, Olney CM, Friedman B. Comput Inform Nurs. 2009;27:318-323.

DATABASE/DIRECTORY

MEDMARX®.

Rockville, MD: U.S. Pharmacopeia; 2011.

COMMENTARY

Medical malpractice liability in the age of electronic health records.

Mangalmurti SS, Murtagh L, Mello MM. N Engl J Med. 2010;363:2060-2067.

REVIEW

Systematic review: impact of health information technology on quality, efficiency, and costs of medical care.

Chaudhry B, Wang J, Wu S, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2006;144:742-752.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Still hard to share. PSOs making progress but still face tech hurdles.

DerGurahian J. Mod Healthc. October 12, 2009;39:30.

COMMENTARY

A vision for patient-centered health information systems.

Krist AH, Woolf SH. JAMA. 2011;305:300-301.

STUDY

Systematically improving physician assignment during in-hospital transitions of care by enhancing a preexisting hospital electronic health record.

Zsenits B, Polashenski WA, Sterns RH, Brown DR IV, Moheet A. J Hosp Med. 2009;4:308-312.

REVIEW

The benefits of health information technology: a review of the recent literature shows predominantly positive results.

Buntin MB, Burke MF, Hoaglin MC, Blumenthal D. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011;30:464-471.

REVIEW

Impact of health information technology interventions to improve medication laboratory monitoring for ambulatory patients: a systematic review.

Fischer SH, Tjia J, Field TS. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010;17:631-636.

COMMENTARY

From tasks to processes: the case for changing health information technology to improve health care.

Walker JM, Carayon P. Health Aff. 2009;28:467-477.

COMMENTARY

Application of electronic health records to The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

Radecki RP, Sittig DF. JAMA. 2011;306:92-93.

STUDY

Use of electronic health records in US hospitals.

Jha AK, Desroches CM, Campbell EG, et al. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:1628-1638.

COMMENTARY

Knowledge-based information to improve the quality of patient care.

Garcia JL, Wells KK. J Healthc Qual. 2009;31:30-35.

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