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Scuba

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3. You're correct about disjointed records, and patients (people) should be...

Reply to cbayer (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 06:23 PM

Jan 2012

...taking responsibility for making sure their physician knows about ALL their meds, because no one else can, at least for now.

Still, in To Err is Human the Joint Commission blamed handwriting errors for 50% of ADE fatalities, which they put at over 100,000 a year in the US.

Automated systems can eliminate handwriting problems and provide reasonability checking for age, sex, body weight, etc., all of which can help.

Making sure nurses have enough time to do their jobs with the care it deserves is another matter.

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IMHO, this is a huge problem. cbayer Jan 2012 #1

You're correct about disjointed records, and patients (people) should be... Scuba Jan 2012 #3

Excellent points all around. That is why we are in such desperate cbayer Jan 2012 #4

First, thanks for the correction. It was of course the IOM, not the Joint.... Scuba Jan 2012 #5

Sounds like you are a positive cog in the wheel, Scuba. cbayer Jan 2012 #6

Past tense.... Scuba Jan 2012 #7

That list is what I saw in years of practice. Warpy Jan 2012 #2

People forget that the "natural remedies" have side effects, too. Odin2005 Jan 2012 #8