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Assessment Of Organizational Readiness Towards Electronic Health Records In A Tertiary Care Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, A Quantitative Analytical Cross-Sectional Study, Muhammad Javeed
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Background: A medical error is one of the most preventable errors that occur frequently in hospitals, leading to millions of deaths yearly. Medical errors cost hospitals billions of dollars worldwide. Human error is also a common cause of medication errors, but this error is due to the failure of the system to detect errors. The electronic health record (EHR) is a complete set of computerized records of all information related to patient health that is used by one or more users in any care setting. This information includes demographic data of patients, patients’ progress notes, complaints and diagnoses, medications, vital …