Measuring the rate of manual transcription error in outpatient point-of-care testing.
Many point-of-care laboratory tests are manually entered into the electronic health record by ambulatory clinic staff, but the rate of manual transcription error for this testing is poorly characterized. Using a dataset arising from a duplicated workflow that created a set of paired interfaced and manually entered point-of-care glucose measurements, we found that 260 of 6930 (3.7%) manual entries were discrepant from their interfaced result. Thirty-seven of the 260 (14.2%) [...]
Author(s): Mays, James A, Mathias, Patrick C
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocy170