Copy and Paste of Electronic Health Records: A Modern Medical Illness
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The prevalence of duplicate information in EHRs due to copy-pasting, templating, and summarizing is a major barrier to finding relevant information from EHRs.
“The prevalence of duplicate information in EHRs due to copy-pasting, templating, and summarizing is a major barrier to finding relevant information from EHRs79,80.”
From Social determinants of health extraction from clinical notes across institutions using large language models (2025) · cites this paper as [80]
In the unpaginated main text, Markel describes copied information repeatedly filling charts, sometimes leaving the reader unable to understand the data while relevant current history receives little space. This supports the barrier attributed to copy-pasting. The paper does not identify templating or summarizing as causes, and its examples from one medical center do not establish EHR-wide prevalence. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Siegler EL, Adelman R. Copy and paste: a remediable hazard of elec- tronic health records. Am J Med. 2009;122:495-496. 0002-9343/$ -see front matter © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- Authors
- Markel, A.
- Affiliations
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Markel, Arie
- ORCID
- Markel, Arie
- Venue
- The American Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-05
- Volume
- 123
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- e9
- ISSN
- 0002-9343 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2075137165
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The American Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Medical Coding and Health Information
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Issues, ethics and legal aspects › Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Keywords
- copy and paste, electronic health records, clinical documentation, history of present illness, medical errors, internal medicine residency training, medical records review, discharge summaries, medical education reform, patient safety
- MeSH terms
- Electronic Health Records
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