A hospital transitions from a paper-based medication ordering system to computerized physician order entry (CPOE). Three months after implementation, a review shows that while transcription errors have decreased by 85%, new types of errors have emerged, including incorrect dose selection from dropdown menus and alert fatigue from excessive clinical decision support warnings. Which of the following best describes this phenomenon?

  1. A)Near-miss events
  2. B)Latent errors
  3. C)Active errors
  4. D)Sentinel events
  5. E)Technology-induced errorsGABARITO

Explicação

Technology-induced errors are new error types that emerge as unintended consequences of health information technology implementation. CPOE systems eliminate handwriting-related errors but introduce novel failure modes including dropdown selection errors, alert... Ver explicação completa e trilha adaptativa →

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