Approaches to recording drug allergies in electronic health records: qualitative study

Bernard Fernando; Zoe Morrison; Dipak Kalra; Kathrin Cresswell; Aziz Sheikh

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093047

Approaches to recording drug allergies in electronic health records: qualitative study

Bernard Fernando, Zoe Morrison, Dipak Kalra, Kathrin Cresswell, Aziz Sheikh

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Drug allergy represent an important subset of adverse drug reactions that is worthy of attention because many of these reactions are potentially preventable with use of computerised decision support systems. This is however dependent on the accurate and comprehensive recording of these reactions in the electronic health record. The objectives of this study were to understand approaches to the recording of drug allergies in electronic health record systems.

Original language	English
Article number	e93047
Number of pages	6
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	9
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093047
Publication status	Published - 16 Apr 2014

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