C5 Electronic and other ways of improving medication safety

C5 Electronic and other ways of improving medication safety

Technical fixes: are they the way to improve medication safety?

• Improving medication prescribing in intensive care: the introduction of an electronic system, Kathryn Went, PhD Student, School of Computing, University of Dundee, UK
• Implementation of an automated prescription system to reduce medication errors, Ana Belén Jiménez-Muñoz, Physician, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Spain
• Impact of a computerized medication safety system interface on medication errors, Willa Fields, Associate Professor, San Diego Sate University, USA
• Designing explicit criteria to control the quality of outpatient electronic prescribing systems in France, Pierre Liot, Project Manager, Haute Autorité De Santé, France
• Colour coding: a way to prevent syringe swap errors (SSEs), Philippe Garnerin, Quality Manager, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland