“Prescriptions written by doctors have always been the brunt of comedians. They are, in general, hard to read, and difficult to translate. That, however, isn’t the sole reason given by researchers for the seven-fold increase in errors by doctors eschewing electronic systems for prescriptions.
The study, conducted by Weill Cornell Medical College compared electronic submission of prescriptions with handwritten ones. The authors compared the prescription errors between 15 health care providers who adopted e-prescribtions and 15 who continued to write prescriptions by hand at 12 community practices in the Hudson Valley region of New York.”
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Michael Santo, San Jose Technology Examiner, 28 February 2010
Abstract (Kaushal 2010)
