Background Many systematic reviews exist on interventions to improve safe and effective
medicines use by consumers, but research is distributed across diseases, populations and …

Background: Multi-morbidity and polypharmacy of the elderly population enhances the
probability of elderly in residential long-term care facilities experiencing inappropriate …

Most electronic health records today need further development of features that patient-
centered medical homes require to improve their efficiency, quality, and safety. We propose …

Background Computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems are
electronic prescribing strategies that are increasingly used to improve patient safety …

Clinical decision support (CDS) systems link patient data with an electronic knowledge base
in order to improve decision-making and computerised physician order entry (CPOE) is a …

Hospital errors are a seemingly intractable problem and continuing threat to public health.
Errors resist intervention because too often the interventions deployed fail to address the …

PROBLEM. Nurse–physician communication affects patient safety. Such communication has
been well studied using a variety of survey and observational methods; however, missing …

Previous reviews have examined evidence of the impact of CPOE on medication errors, but
have used highly variable definitions of “error”. We attempted to answer a very focused …

Background The clinical decision support system (CDSS) has potential to improving
medication safety. However, the effects of the intervention were conflicting and uncertain …

Background Considerable investments are being made in commercial electronic prescribing
systems (e-prescribing) in many countries. Few studies have measured or evaluated their …