http://onthepharm.net/2006/07/medication-errors-personal-responsibility.html Life on the pharm Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:44:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://onthepharm.net/2006/07/medication-errors-personal-responsibility.html/comment-page-1#comment-149 Electronic prescriptions are not a panacea :: OnThePharm Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:10:11 +0000 http://onthepharm.net/2006/07/medication-errors-personal-responsibility.html#comment-149 [...] Bad handwriting accounts for a small (but significant) percentage of medication errors, as was reported in a study I wrote about a few days ago. It is not the biggest problem, but it is a real problem. Techies and techno-literate healthcare professionals like to tout the advantages of e-prescribing systems to get around this problem. And indeed, often electronic prescriptions are blessedly clear compared to their handwritten counterparts. [...] [...] Bad handwriting accounts for a small (but significant) percentage of medication errors, as was reported in a study I wrote about a few days ago. It is not the biggest problem, but it is a real problem. Techies and techno-literate healthcare professionals like to tout the advantages of e-prescribing systems to get around this problem. And indeed, often electronic prescriptions are blessedly clear compared to their handwritten counterparts. [...]

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