Creating Safety in Primary Care Practice with Electronic Medical Records Requires the Consideration of System Dynamics

Improvement in quality and safety in health care often depends on eliminating errors. Using examples from our research on the medical testing processes in primary care medical practices, we argue that designing safer systems requires moving beyond frameworks that focus exclusively on error eliminati...

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Main Authors: Timothy R. McEwen, Nancy C. Elder, John M. Flach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/2040-2295.2.1.87

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