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Medical Breakthrough - You Will Never Guess What It Is
Category: Why Didn't I Think Of That?
Health Care providers have discovered a new concept - measure twice, cut once and its little sister, a stitch in time saves nine.
Verbal Medical Order Errors Reduced To Zero With Simple ChangeHospitals have spent millions of dollars on computerized physician order entry systems to reduce medical errors, but a simple change in the way verbal orders are entered in the system -- so simple that it cost nothing to implement -- has reduced errors to zero, according to a new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study.
"By simply having the resident read back the order before he or she entered it into the computer, we reduced verbal order errors from 9.1 percent to zero," says Michael Vossmeyer, M.D., a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children's and the study's main author.
Wow!! The secret to avoiding mistakes is taking the time to begin with. I will have to pass on this novel idea. Thank you, Medical News Today.
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Greedy, why do you have so few comments? Are you not for real, as some suggest?
Posted by: Leigh at May 2, 2006 02:54 PM
Leigh -
My assumption about the few comments on my blog is that just about everyone agrees with my posts, and the stray bananas who disagree don't know how to type.
You obviously can type. Your question is touching. Are any of us real? That is the mystery of life.
Posted by: greedytriallawyer at May 2, 2006 03:24 PM