Death by Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V? Copy–pasting of clinical notes ‘an epidemic’
In a single-centre study, 8.3% of records had errors attributed to copy–pasting.
Indiscriminate copy–pasting of clinical notes between records is causing “note bloat” and infecting records with errors, according to two papers in Internal Medicine Journal.
A study at Lyell McEwin Hospital in SA found that copy–pasting was responsible for errors in 8.3% of the 97 ward-round records studied.
