Can electronic clinical documentation help prevent diagnostic errors?

Gordon Schiff; David W. Bates

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Can electronic clinical documentation help prevent diagnostic errors?

February 17, 2011

Schiff G, Bates DW. New Engl J Med. 2010;362(12):1066-1069.

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This commentary explores ways that health information technology and electronic health records could improve the process of diagnosis and decrease diagnostic errors.

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