Improving quality and safety of care using "technovigilance": an ethnographic case study of secondary use of data from an electronic prescribing and decision support system.

Mary Dixon-Woods; Sabi Redwood; Myles Leslie; Joel Minion; Graham Martin; Jamie J. Coleman

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Improving quality and safety of care using "technovigilance": an ethnographic case study of secondary use of data from an electronic prescribing and decision support system.

October 16, 2013

Dixon-Woods M, Redwood S, Leslie M, et al. Milbank Q. 2013;91(3):424-54.

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Ethnographic observations and semi-structured interview data showed that implementation of an electronic health record with prescribing and decision support led to greater oversight of and improvements in specific safety metrics.

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