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Seems to me like the solution is to work on improving handoffs rather than trading the risk of handoffs for the risk introduced by sleep deprivation. From the
by GVIrish 9y ago
Seems to me like the solution is to work on improving handoffs rather than trading the risk of handoffs for the risk introduced by sleep deprivation.
From the medical professionals I know, handoff problems are partly because of missing/difficult to find/ignored information in charts and in healthcare IT systems. Improving on that front might be a way to allow a switch to more sensible schedules that don't invite bleary-eyed mistakes from doctors/residents.
- colechristensen 9y agoGive everyone paper, pens, handwriting lessons, and AI powered OCR. Healthcare IT systems are a mess, and taking writing away from people makes them worse at their jobs. Every medical professional I've ever managed to get talking about healthcare IT gave me the impression that it gets in the way more than helps. The ... lets call it ergonomics of record keeping are vitally important in medicine and plenty of other disciplines. Computers have been used as a way to enforce and expand bureaucratic rules, not as a tool to make record keeping more expressive and powerful.
- ribs 9y agoDoctors' handwriting is notoriously bad, even archetypally bad. It's its own genre of humor.
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