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The GAO (2016) interviewed patient safety experts and the related literature to identify three key gaps in patient safety practice implementation:
a lack of (1) information about the effect of contextual factors on implementation of patient safety practices, (2) sufficiently detailed information on the experience of hospitals that have previously used specific patient safety implementation strategies, and (3) valid and accurate measurement of how frequently certain adverse events occur. (p. 22)
Select one of these gaps and describe in detail how nursing informatics could help close this gap.
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