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Doctors are famous for sloppy scribbling and handwritten prescriptions lead to thousands of medicine errors each year. Electronics to the rescue: U.S. hospitals that switched to computerized doctor order entry systems saw a 66 percent drop in prescription errors, as per a new review of studies. Illegible handwriting and transcription errors are responsible for as much as 61 percent of medicine errors in hospitals. A simple mistake such as putting the decimal point in the wrong place can have serious consequences because a patients dosage could be 10 times the recommended amount……..

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Doctors are famous for sloppy scribbling and handwritten prescriptions lead to thousands of medicine errors each year. Electronics to the rescue: U.S. hospitals that switched to computerized doctor order entry systems saw a 66 percent drop in prescription errors, as per a new review of studies. Illegible handwriting and transcription errors are responsible for as much as 61 percent of medicine errors in hospitals. A simple mistake such as putting the decimal point in the wrong place can have serious consequences because a patients dosage could be 10 times the recommended amount……..

Original post by Health news from medicineworld.org