Purpose: The purpose of this article is to explore the concept of information chaos as it
applies to the issues of patient safety and physician workload in primary care and to propose …

Although it is assumed that information about patient safety and adverse events will be used
for improvement and organizational learning, we know little about how this actually happens …

According to the human factors paradigm for patient safety, health care work systems and
innovations such as electronic medical records do not have direct effects on patient safety …

Background: The impact of organizational climate on physicians and their patients is not well
understood. The Minimizing Error, Maximizing Outcome (MEMO) Study investigates this …

Health care leaders and analysts typically describe the health care environment as dynamic,
complex, and highly uncertain. This study conceptualizes environmental uncertainty as an …

Objective To understand the complex effects of interruption in healthcare. Materials and
methods As interruptions have been well studied in other domains, the authors undertook a …

As we move toward an era when health information is more readily accessible and
transferable, there are several issues that will arise. This article addresses the challenges of …

Objectives Clinical information system (CIS) developers and implementers have begun to
look to other scientific disciplines for new methods, tools, and techniques to help them better …

In order to understand the differing perceptions of information needs and communication
patterns of healthcare professionals as they relate to medical errors, we conducted a survey …

Objective Electronic health records (EHR) hold great promise for managing patient
information in ways that improve healthcare delivery. Physicians differ, however, in their use …