Resource topic: Practice Environment
Electronic Nursing Documentation as a Strategy to Improve Quality of Patient Care

The following literature review of 24 studies examines the relationship between electronic nursing documentation and the quality of care provided to hospitalized...

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Effects of exam room EHR use on doctor-patient communication: A systematic literature review

The following systematic review examines how physician use of EHRs in medical consultations affects doctor-patient communication, both in terms of patient...

Health information technology, patient safety, and professional nursing care documentation in acute care settings

Although nurses applaud the EHR, they also indicate dissatisfaction with its design and cumbersome electronic processes. This article describes the views of nurses...

The effects of CPOE on ICU workflow: An observational study

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) has had demonstrated benefits in error reduction and guideline adherence, but its implementation has often been...

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HITECH Act Drove Large Gains in Hospital Electronic Health Record Adoption

The extent to which recent large increases in hospitals’ adoption of EHR systems can be attributed to the HITECH Act of 2009 has been uncertain and debated. The...

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Overriding of drug safety alerts in computerized physician order entry

The following literature review examines 17 papers on physician response to drug safety alerts. Drug safety alerts are overridden by clinicians in 49% to 96% of...

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Overrides of medication-related clinical decision support alerts in outpatients

The following article reviewed 157,483 clinical decision support (CDS) alerts on 2,004,069 medication orders, in order to examine the override rates for...

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The Burden of Inbox Notifications in Commercial Electronic Health Records

With wider use of electronic health records (EHRs), physicians increasingly receive notifications via EHR-based inboxes. Types of notifications include test...

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Barriers to the use of personal health records by patients: a structured review

Published in PeerJ, the following literature review seeks evidence about barriers to the adoption and continued use of personal electronic health records (PHRs),...

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The implications and impact of 3 approaches to health information exchange: community, enterprise, and vendor-mediated health information exchange

The following literature review draws conceptual distinctions between various types of electronic health information exchanges (HIE), to assess the current evidence...

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