Clinical plagiarism: the problem of copy and pasting in EMRs
It is all too common for a section in a progress note to look something like this:
# Aspiration pneumonia:
Continue vancomycin 1 g bid
Continue Zosyn 3.325 g q6h
Follow-up blood cultures
Follow-up sputum cultures
MRSA nares screen negative
Blood cultures negative
Discontinue vancomycin
Yesterday, a version of this note (lines 1 to 5 to be precise) had my name on it. Today, it is signed by someone else. Read it again if you did not see the problem.
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