Poof – It's Gone – The Disappearing Order That Led to a Patient Getting an Unnecessary Procedure

Electronic health records are the bane of most clinicians' existence. They were supposed to help us but not only have they made life more difficult for clinicians, they are the cause of medical errors. Described here is a case of the patient receiving an unnecessary procedure because an order was not canceled in an EHR where it had disappeared from the clinicians' view. A second theme in this case that is consistent in nearly all of the JAMA Performance Improvement articles to date is inadequate communication among clinicians.

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Poof – It's Gone – The Disappearing Order That Led to a Patient Getting an Unnecessary Procedure is an episode from JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association.

This episode is 20:55 long.

This episode was published on Jan 18, 2019.

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