An effort to improve electronic health record medication list accuracy between visits: patients' and physicians' response.

Maria Staroselsky; Lynn A Volk; Ruslana Tsurikova; Lisa Newmark; Margaret Lippincott; Irina Litvak; Anne Kittler; Tiffany Wang; Jonathan Wald; David W Bates

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An effort to improve electronic health record medication list accuracy between visits: patients' and physicians' response.

March 19, 2008

Staroselsky M, Volk LA, Tsurikova R, et al. Int J Med Inform. 2008;77(3):153-60.

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In this study, patients had access to a web-based electronic health record that allowed them to view their medication list and report inaccuracies. However, medication lists were found to be equally inaccurate for users and nonusers of the system.

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