![JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm artwork](https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts123/v4/1c/a6/08/1ca60876-4c1e-f913-5529-a8d9c0ed67e0/mza_1329646535511614664.png/100x100bb.jpg)
Poof – It’s Gone – The Disappearing Order That Led to a Patient Getting an Unnecessary Procedure
JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm
English - January 18, 2019 16:00 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MB - ★★★★ - 23 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Science medicine jama jamanetwork performanceimprovement Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: EMRs Gone Bad: How Order Sets Can Result in Medication Errors
Next Episode: How to Reduce Emergency Department Dwell Time
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.