Abstract
While there has been extensive research on patient safety in high-acuity health care settings, hazards to patient safety in ambulatory care settings remain poorly understood. Workflows and information flows in ambulatory care are highly complex and varied, giving rise to distinct ways in which patient harm can occur. It is hoped that use of health information technology (HIT) can make ambulatory care safer, but concerns exist that hazards to patient safety can also be introduced by such technology. This chapter presents two cases of HIT-related hazards centered on common scenarios in ambulatory care: determining a patient's preventive screening needs and identifying a patient population for chronic disease management.
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Rose, E. (2016). Safety Considerations in Ambulatory Care Informatics. In: Agrawal, A. (eds) Safety of Health IT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31123-4_15
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