Identifying and quantifying medication errors: evaluation of rapidly discontinued medication orders submitted to a computerized physician order entry system.

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Published in J Am Med Inform Assoc on April 24, 2008

Authors

Ross Koppel1, Charles E Leonard, A Russell Localio, Abigail Cohen, Ruthann Auten, Brian L Strom

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. rkoppel@sas.upenn.edu

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