While EHRs can offer significant benefits, they can also foster errors in ways that paper documentation did not, a phenomenon that has been termed 'e-iatrogenesis'.
Unintended consequences of computerized patient care system interventions may increase resource use, foster clinical errors, and reduce users' confidence.
The biggest error Foster sees people make, when it comes to preparing mashed potatoes in advance, is boiling the spuds, then letting them sit in a pot full of water for hours.
Blunt measures such as passing or failing a licensure examination, or revoking/suspending a license after a single dispensing error fosters anxiety amongst professionals and potentially leads to behaviours where learning needs are actually hidden from educators, employers or regulators.
Most genetic analyses of tumors have focused on figuring out which mutations turn normal cells cancerous and how these "spelling errors" foster tumor growth.
With it once again undeniable that policy error fostered a recessionary housing boom, it's arguable that the falling dollar trumped low rates as the driver of that which ended in tears.
Ct. 8, 97, the attorney general of Kansas had instituted a proceeding to remove Foster, the plaintiff in error, from the office of county attorney for Saline county.
35 37 The diversity and variation in scope, structure and infrastructure in outpatient care may foster more opportunity for error.
Additional ways to improve quality and efficiency include developing and funding a national standard for digitalized and transportable patient records; mandatory but legally protected reporting of all medical errors to foster continuous learning and quality improvement; and requiring all professionals, including lawyers, to do a better job of weeding out incompetent colleagues.
A system riddled with errors fosters distrust and actually makes it harder for police to operate.
