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Patient Safety Issues From Information Overload in Electronic Medical Records
Nijor, Sohn Rallis, Gavin Lad, Nimit
Nijor, Sohn
Rallis, Gavin
Lad, Nimit
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2022-04-07
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Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/pts.0000000000001002
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Background and Objective: Electronic health records (EHRs) have become ubiquitous in medicine and continue to grow in informational content. Little has been documented regarding patient safety from the resultant information overload. The objective of this literature review is to better understand how information overload in EHR affects patient safety. Methods: A literature search was performed using the Transparent Reporting of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses standards for literature review. PubMed and Web of Science were searched and articles selected that were relevant to EHR information overload based on keywords. Results: The literature search yielded 28 articles meeting the criteria for the study. Information overload was found to increase physician cognitive load and error rates in clinical simulations. Overabundance of clinically irrelevant information, poor data display, and excessive alerting were consistently identified as issues that may lead to information overload. Conclusions: Information overload in EHRs may result in higher error rates and negatively impact patient safety. Further studies are necessary to define the role of EHR in adverse patient safety events and to determine methods to mitigate these errors. Changes focused on the usability of EHR should be considered with the end user (physician) in mind. Federal agencies have a role to play in encouraging faster adoption of improved EHR interfaces.
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Nijor, Sohn MD; Rallis, Gavin BS; Lad, Nimit MD; Gokcen, Eric MD. Patient Safety Issues From Information Overload in Electronic Medical Records. Journal of Patient Safety 18(6):p e999-e1003, September 2022. | DOI: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000001002
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
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Journal of Patient Safety, Vol. 18, No. 6
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