Medical Xpress May 16, 2022
Massachusetts General Hospital

People undergoing surgery are at risk for harm due to medication errors. A new approach to managing and documenting how medications are administered in the operating room (OR) improves patient safety and clinicians’ workflow efficiency, according to a new study led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The results of this investigation, the first of its kind, appear in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) and could lay the foundation for sweeping changes in how anesthesia and other medications are delivered in the OR.

In recent years, widespread efforts have been made to reduce the incidence of errors in hospitals. However, while a drug administered to a patient in a ward goes through multiple...

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