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James Tsimiklis^1,2, Sarah Howson³, Joshua Kovoor⁴

¹Lyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

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Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Erroneous copying in electronic medical records (EMRs) affects 8.3% of ward notes, primarily in the issues list. Similarity metrics show promise for detecting this documentation issue.

Keywords:

detection documentation of information electronic health records improvement standards

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Area of Science:

Medical Informatics
Clinical Documentation
Health Information Management

Background:

Electronic medical records (EMRs) offer communication efficiencies for clinicians.
Copy-paste functionality in EMRs risks inaccurate documentation and 'note bloat'.
Overuse of copying can dilute clinical information and negatively impact patient care.

Purpose of the Study:

To quantify the frequency of erroneous copying in EMR ward notes.
To identify specific note components where erroneous copying occurs.
To evaluate similarity metrics for predicting notes with copying errors.

Main Methods:

Cross-sectional study of ward round notes over 48 hours.
Inclusion of long-stay medical services at a tertiary hospital.
Evaluation of four similarity metrics: longest sequential characters, SequenceMatcher, Levenshtein distance, Jaccard index.

Main Results:

Erroneous copying was identified in 8.3% of ward round notes.
All instances (100%) of erroneous copying occurred within the 'issues list'.
A threshold of >850 unchanged sequential characters effectively predicted erroneous copying.

Conclusions:

Erroneous copying is prevalent in 8.3% of EMR ward notes across medical services.
Automated strategies are needed to mitigate inaccurate documentation from copying.
Further research into similarity metrics for error detection is warranted.