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Providing Evidence and Developing a Toolkit to Accelerate the Adoption of Patient Photographs in Electronic Health Records
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This study will evaluate the effectiveness of patient photographs displayed in electronic health record systems for preventing wrong-patient errors.
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September 30, 2017 to July 31, 2021
Develop and Validate Health IT Safety Measures To Capture Violations of the Five Rights of Medication Safety
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This project will develop and validate new measures needed for automatically identifying violations of the “Five Rights of Medication Safety”: right patient, right dose, right medication, right route, and right frequency.
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September 1, 2016 to June 30, 2020
Assess Risk of Wrong-Patient Errors in an EMR That Allows Multiple Records Open
Description:
This project compared the risk of orders placed on the wrong electronic patient record when providers were limited to having one patient record open at a time versus up to four and found no difference in errors between the two.
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September 30, 2014 to September 29, 2018
