The potential benefits of the electronic health record over traditional paper are many,
including cost containment, reductions in errors, and improved compliance by utilizing real …

OBJECTIVE: Communication practices of healthcare professionals have been strongly
implicated in the cascade of events that unfold into poor outcomes for surgical patients. The …

Accurate pharmacoepidemiologic study conclusions require assessment of valid data,
regardless of whether the data originate from questionnaires, administrative claims, or …

Aims and objectives To explore how communication failures occur in documents and
documentations across the perioperative pathway in nurses' interactions with other nurses …

METHODS: We used custom software to continuously scan for missing clinical
documentation during anesthesia. We used patient allergies as a test case, taking …

Produção tecnológica e estudo metodológico baseado na evidência que avaliou com os
enfermeiros de Terapia Intensiva os critérios de Ergonomia e Usabilidade do Processo de …

Improving the quality of health care, including anesthesia, is a fundamentally simple cycle of
observing outcomes, analyzing causation, making changes in care, and reobserving. The …

Results Adherence to PONV guideline recommendations was considerably low, with only
5749 (54%) of the patients receiving correct PONV prophylaxis. Two thousand seven …

Conclusions Health IT and AIMS are at the intersection of patient safety and technology.
Anesthesiologists are perfectly positioned to be the physician leaders of adoption, design …

Anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) are becoming more commonplace in
operating rooms (ORs) across the world and have the potential to help clinicians measure …