The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Can Electronic Clinical Documentation Help Prevent Diagnostic Errors?
Abstract
The United States is about to invest nearly $50 billion in health information technology (HIT) in an attempt to push the country to a tipping point with respect to the adoption of computerized records, which are expected to improve the quality and reduce the costs of care.1 A fundamental question is how best to design electronic health records (EHRs) to enhance clinicians' workflow and the quality of care. Although clinical documentation plays a central role in EHRs and occupies a substantial proportion of physicians' time, documentation practices have largely been dictated by billing and legal requirements. Yet the primary role . . .
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“Our QI initiative highlights the possibility that the use of multiple reporting sources, including both clinicians and patients and families, may further enhance the ability to effectively capture potential safety issues.35,36”
From A patient and family reporting system for perceived ambulatory note mistakes: experience at 3 U.S. healthcare centers (2019) · cites this paper as [35]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Types and Origins of Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Settings
Singh, H., Giardina, T. D., Meyer, A. N. D., Forjuoh, S. N., Reis, M. D., & Thomas, E. J. (2013) · JAMA Internal Medicine · doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2777 · Cited by 559
Hernandez-Boussard, T., Bozkurt, S., Ioannidis, J. P. A., & Shah, N. H. (2020) · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · doi:10.1093/jamia/ocaa088 · Cited by 410
The Global Burden of Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care
Singh, H., Schiff, G. D., Graber, M. L., Onakpoya, I., & Thompson, M. J. (2017) · BMJ Quality & Safety · doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2016-005401 · Cited by 395
Self-citationHorsky, J., Schiff, G. D., Johnston, D., Mercincavage, L., Bell, D., & Middleton, B. (2012) · Journal of Biomedical Informatics · doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2012.09.002 · Cited by 289
Self-citationOpen Notes: Doctors and Patients Signing On
Delbanco, T., Walker, J., Darer, J. D., Elmore, J. G., Feldman, H. J., Leveille, S. G., Ralston, J. D., Ross, S. E., Vodicka, E., & Weber, V. D. (2010) · Annals of Internal Medicine · doi:10.7326/0003-4819-153-2-201007200-00008 · Cited by 253
Metadata
- Authors
- Schiff, G. D., & Bates, D. W.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2010-03-25
- Volume
- 362
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1066-1069
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2155128311
- Cited by
- 238
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 44.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Can Electronic Clinical Documentation Help Prevent Diagnostic Errors? https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1056/nejmp0911734
- The paper
- Schiff, G. D., & Bates, D. W. (2010). Can Electronic Clinical Documentation Help Prevent Diagnostic Errors? New England Journal of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp0911734
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
