Impact of an electronic medication management system on hospital doctors' and nurses' work: a controlled pre-post, time and motion study.

CONCLUSIONS: eMMS introduction did not result in redistribution of time away from direct care or towards medication tasks. Work patterns observed on these intervention wards were associated with previously reported significant reductions in prescribing error rates relative to the control wards.
PMID: 23715803 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - May 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Westbrook JI, Li L, Georgiou A, Paoloni R, Cullen J Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research