Effect of number of open charts on intercepted wrong-patient medication orders in an emergency department.

Thomas G. Kannampallil; John D. Manning; David W. Chestek; Jason S. Adelman; Hojjat Salmasian; Bruce L. Lambert; William Galanter

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Effect of number of open charts on intercepted wrong-patient medication orders in an emergency department.

May 30, 2018

Kannampallil TG, Manning JD, Chestek DW, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018;25(6):739-743.

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Opening multiple patients' charts in the electronic medical record simultaneously may increase the risk of wrong-patient orders, a known patient safety hazard. Researchers analyzed intercepted wrong-patient medication orders in an emergency department over a 6-year period and found no significant reduction when the maximum number of charts allowed to be open at the same time decreased from 4 to 2. Similarly, there was no significant increase when the maximum number of charts permitted to be open simultaneously increased from 2 to 4.

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