An iconic language for the graphical representation of medical concepts.(Research article)

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | April 24, 2008| | Copyright

Authors: Jean-Baptiste Lamy (corresponding author) [1]; Catherine Duclos [1]; Avner Bar-Hen [1]; Patrick Ouvrard [2]; Alain Venot [1]

Background

The drug prescription process is complex and error-prone. Many medication errors result from incorrect prescription, leading to frequent injury, a public health problem [1, 2, 3].

The installation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems within hospitals may help to decrease the frequency of such errors [4, 5, 6], although an increase in errors was recently reported after the installation of ...

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