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Resident Supervision and the Electronic Medical Record
Leslea Brickner, MD;
Michael Clement, MD;
Mary Patton, MD
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The interesting report by Singh et al1 adds important data to understanding the factors behind errors in various training settings. It shines a bright light on factors related to teamwork, specifically, errors involving lack of supervision. This report also shows that errors occur in a variety of patient care settings. Patient care involving computer-based medical records may have unique error characteristics. However, an integrated electronic medical record may also offer new opportunities to both instruct and supervise trainees.
A result of the increased fragmentation of patient care is that the instruction and supervision of trainees has become more complex. Communication between trainees and supervisors historically occurs in person or over the telephone, but now it also occurs virtually via text messaging and secure e-mails.
The electronic medical record allows trainees to review patient results on their outpatients and then forward ("cc") . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Resident Supervision and the Electronic Medical Record—Reply
Hardeep Singh, Eric J. Thomas, Laura A. Petersen, and David M. Studdert
Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(10):1118.
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