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The business leaders plan to meet next month with 11 big health insurance companies to discuss ways to avoid errors by computerizing medical orders and other improvements.
We were just carrying out our medical orders, never questioning the system that was good to us, just doing our job.
Dr. David Bates, chief of general medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said its computerized system for medical orders had cost $1.9 million to install.
They include Internet links to a doctor's laptop, advice-giving software equipped with artificial intelligence, wireless devices that transmit medical orders and bar-code systems to avoid drug errors.
But medical orders like "no artificial hydration and nutrition" — used to indicate that the patient should not be given a feeding tube — are often interpreted as "do not feed".
As a registered nurse with five years' experience treating cancer patients — some at the end of life — I believe that medical orders signed by a doctor, known as Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, are invaluable.
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For medications, 11,162 items (each item corresponds to a line in the medical order) were extracted with 363 different medications.
Medication errors are frequent in the ICU and may occur during medical ordering, transcription or administration of drugs.
He had ordered government departments to take measures to "protect medical order," it said.
In most states, the patient or surrogate must also sign the medical order to indicate informed consent.
The health care professional then signs a single-page medical order telling emergency medical personnel and other health care providers what to do if the patient is incapacitated.
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