Evaluation of interventions to improve inpatient hospital documentation within electronic health records: a systematic review. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Evaluation of interventions to improve inpatient hospital documentation within electronic health records: a systematic review. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Review
 
• Published July 2019

Evaluation of interventions to improve inpatient hospital documentation within electronic health records: a systematic review.

Wiebe N, Otero Varela L, Niven DJ, Ronksley PE, Iragorri N, Quan H. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 Jul 31; [Epub ahead of print].

This systematic review found that while interventions designed to improve inpatient documentation within electronic health records (EHRs) are highly varied, education and EHR reporting systems seem to be more effective in improving electronic documentation for hospitalized patients than other efforts.

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