Assessing the impact of mobile technology on order verification during pharmacist participation in patient rounds.
Purpose. Pharmacists' use of mobile technology (MT) to verify medication orders placed during their participation in medical rounds is investigated. Methods. A retrospective observational study was conducted at a large academic medical center to assess the impact of MT on the average time to pharmac...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Vol. 70; no. 7; pp. 633 - 637 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
4/1/2013
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