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Patient safety informatics : adverse drug events, human factors, and IT tools for patient medication safety /

Improving patient safety and the quality of healthcare poses many challenges, and information technology (IT) can support the measures necessary to address these. Unfortunately, the risk of adverse drug events (ADEs) rises alongside the increasing sophistication of the health IT systems incorporated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: IOS Press
Otros Autores: Koutkias, Vassilis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : IOS Press, ©2011.
Colección:Studies in health technology and informatics ; v. 166.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Improving patient safety and the quality of healthcare poses many challenges, and information technology (IT) can support the measures necessary to address these. Unfortunately, the risk of adverse drug events (ADEs) rises alongside the increasing sophistication of the health IT systems incorporated into hospital environments. These pose a risk to the safety of patients and incur considerable extra healthcare costs. Approaches introduced to eliminate ADEs raise a number of concerns, not least that the successful transferability and use of such tools into real clinical settings is only possible.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 274 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781607507406
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9781607507390
1607507390
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9781283289719
ISSN:0926-9630 ;