Peer review article evaluation
The peer-reviewed article I chose is titled “Making healthcare safer by understanding, designing and buying better IT”. I found this article in the Medline database, by using the keywords “Informatics”, “patient”, and “safety”. Using the basic search options located below the keywords, I did not have much trouble locating a peer reviewed article concerning my topic. I selected peer reviewed journals, full text, citations, abstract available and inserted a date range. After scrolling through about three pages and reading the abstract of several articles, this article seemed to be most relevant to my topic of choice. My purpose for choosing this article is to research the role that Nurse Informaticists play in patient care, quality care and patient safety.
Summary
The Article explains the many errors in healthcare related to medical devices. Thimbleby, Lewis, & Williams (2015) states that many of these errors have resulted in …show more content…
Harold Thimbleby is a computer scientist, a professor at Swansea University in the United Kingdom and well known in the research arena. Alexis Lewis has a PhD and works as a research project manager. John Williams is a professor of health services research. Lewis and Williams also work for the Swansea University and have published many works alongside many other researchers. There is a correspondence address and email address for Thimbleby listed at the end of the article. The sources appear to be credible.
The article is addressed to Informatics technology workers, but could benefit healthcare workers and medical device manufacturers. The article is up to date, published in 2015 and is very relevant to today’s healthcare issues. The authors have plenty of references listed to support their information. The information concerning common errors, reporting methods and frequencies and disciplinary actions are very
The peer-reviewed article I chose is titled “Making healthcare safer by understanding, designing and buying better IT”. I found this article in the Medline database, by using the keywords “Informatics”, “patient”, and “safety”. Using the basic search options located below the keywords, I did not have much trouble locating a peer reviewed article concerning my topic. I selected peer reviewed journals, full text, citations, abstract available and inserted a date range. After scrolling through about three pages and reading the abstract of several articles, this article seemed to be most relevant to my topic of choice. My purpose for choosing this article is to research the role that Nurse Informaticists play in patient care, quality care and patient safety.
Summary
The Article explains the many errors in healthcare related to medical devices. Thimbleby, Lewis, & Williams (2015) states that many of these errors have resulted in …show more content…
Harold Thimbleby is a computer scientist, a professor at Swansea University in the United Kingdom and well known in the research arena. Alexis Lewis has a PhD and works as a research project manager. John Williams is a professor of health services research. Lewis and Williams also work for the Swansea University and have published many works alongside many other researchers. There is a correspondence address and email address for Thimbleby listed at the end of the article. The sources appear to be credible.
The article is addressed to Informatics technology workers, but could benefit healthcare workers and medical device manufacturers. The article is up to date, published in 2015 and is very relevant to today’s healthcare issues. The authors have plenty of references listed to support their information. The information concerning common errors, reporting methods and frequencies and disciplinary actions are very