From the article: "Most doctors copy and paste old, potentially
out-of-date information into patients' electronic records, according to a new
study looking at a shortcut that some experts fear could lead to
miscommunication and medical errors…Using plagiarism-detection software, the
researchers analyzed five months' worth of progress notes for 135 patients.
They found that 82 percent of residents' notes and 74 percent of attending
physicians' notes included 20 percent or more copied and pasted material from
the patients' records." Read more
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