E-iatrogenesis

What is E-iatrogenesis?


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patient harm caused at least in part by the application of health information technology

Some e-iatrogenic events (or those events resulting from e-iatrogenesis) will represent the electronic version of "traditional" medical errors, such as a patient receiving the wrong drug dosage due to a human click-error.

See nosocomial


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