Blandford, Ann http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3198-7122
Dykes, Patricia C. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-0732
Franklin, Bryony Dean http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2892-1245
Furniss, Dominic http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2114-4367
Galal-Edeen, Galal H. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0342-5250
Schnock, Kumiko O. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1107-6399
Bates, David W. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6268-1540
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (12/209/27)
AAMI / Carefusion Foundation
Article History
First Online: 13 June 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Ann Blandford and Bryony Dean Franklin jointly supervise a PhD student who is part funded by Cerner, a supplier of electronic health record and electronic prescribing systems, but that PhD is unrelated to the work reported in this paper. Dominic Furniss acted as a scientific advisor to BD/Carefusion at a Medication Safety Advisory Board meeting in January 2017. David Bates consults for EarlySense, receives cash compensation from CDI (Negev) Ltd, receives equity from ValeraHealth, Clew and MDClone, and will be receiving research funding from IBM Watson Health. Patricia Dykes, Galal Galal-Edeen and Kumiko Schnock have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this study.
: This work was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grant (12/209/27), from the Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) stream. The open access fee was also covered by this grant. The England study was also supported by the NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre. We gratefully acknowledge the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) and Carefusion Foundation for funding for the US study. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Care.
: England study: NHS Research Ethics Committee (14/SC/0290). US study: Partners Healthcare Institutional Review Board (Protocol #:2012P000709).
: Not applicable.