Errors can be a significant problem in manual charting as well.

I know a medical professional who does a similar evaluation process to what is outlined in your second link to human written charts. They then use that feedback to guide the department on how to improve their charting.

So, don't presume that those error rates cited in those studies should be compared to a baseline rate of zero. If you review human-written charts, you will often also not have an error rate of zero.

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fc417fc802 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Has anyone considered simply asking the patient to sign off on these things as well? I realize many wouldn't but at least some would.

	▲	kube-system 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the US, HIPAA gives patients a right to access and have corrections added to their medical record. But in my conversations with a person I know who does this work -- I don't think that the typical problems with patient charts are anything that would be remotely noticeable to a patient -- they're often deficiencies of a technical and/or clinical significance.