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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
IOS Press
c2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in health technology and informatics ; v. 166. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31113990*spi |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | ix, 274 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781607507406 9781607507390 |
