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Reducing Errors With Blood Administration Transfusion Systems, Kim D. Stevens
Reducing Errors With Blood Administration Transfusion Systems, Kim D. Stevens
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The intention of implementing technology into healthcare practices is to reduce opportunity for errors in the delivery of providing health care. However, errors still occur, and many times are preventable. Configurations of health information technology systems should match clinical workflows to promote usage as intended. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to evaluate the impact of revised system configurations and use of a blood product transfusion system for the administration of blood products after one year of implementation. The method of heuristic evaluation is a usability engineering method for finding problems in a user interface design with the …