Technology induced error and usability: the relationship between usability problems and prescription errors when using a handheld application.

Andre W. Kushniruk; Marc M Triola; Elizabeth M. Borycki; Ben Stein; Joseph L Kannry

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Technology induced error and usability: the relationship between usability problems and prescription errors when using a handheld application.

July 14, 2009

Kushniruk AW, Triola MM, Borycki EM, et al. Int J Med Inform. 2005;74(7-8).

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The authors evaluated physicians' use of handheld prescribing devices and found that usability problems were associated with certain types of prescribing errors.

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