CPOE Interface Usability: Views of Doctors on Error-Free Medical Services Delivery

Medical errors in hospitals and clinics are not rare and may cause severe harm to patients (Blaser et al. 7002). Bosman (7002) reports 7.2 medical errors per patient while Bates et al. (7007) report that medical errors cause more than one million injuries in US hospitals every year. Furthermore, medical errors are one of the top ten causes of mortality (Zhang et al. 7002). Blendon et al. (7007) report that the mortality rate due to medical errors is higher than the mortality rate as the result of accidents. Moreover, they impose huge costs to the health sector