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Appendix B: Literature Review Methods
Pages 181-184

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From page 181...
... A search strategy was developed for each database using terms and Medical Subject Headings focused in subject areas related to patient safety, medical informatics, and other related areas.1 1 Subject areas included quality of health care (accidental harm, adverse events, diagnostic errors, errors of omission or commission, injuries, medication errors, safety, and treatment outcomes) and medical informatics (human factors, informatics, system design, systems analysis, usability, and user–computer interface)
From page 182...
... Experimental studies 1c. Observational studies Category 2: Literature describing efforts to improve quality of health care through implementation of one or more of the following com ponents of health IT (e.g., system design, systems analysis, usability, user–computer interface, or human factors)
From page 183...
... These parameters include efforts to improve quality of health care through the implementation of one or more of the following: system design, systems analysis, usability, user–computer interface, or human factors. The remaining studies were classified as Category 3 studies, which did not meet the inclusion criteria and were not broadly considered in the literature review or table.


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