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Do We Really Want To Limit Physician Chart Access?

By Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP | on September 15, 2021 | 0 Comment
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  1. Westbrook JI, Coiera E, Dunsmuir WTM, et al. The impact of interruptions on clinical task completion. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19(4):284-289.
  2. Canfield C, Udeh C, Blonsky H, et al. Limiting the number of open charts does not impact wrong patient order entry in the emergency department. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2020;1(5):1071-1077. 
  3. Schulte F, Fry E. Death by 1,000 clicks: where electronic health records went wrong. Kaiser Health News website. Accessed Aug. 20, 2021.
  4. Adelman JS, Applebaum JR, Schechter CB, et al. Effect of restriction of the number of concurrently open records in an electronic health record on wrong-patient order errors: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2019;321(18):1780-1787.

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Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP

A graduate of Morehouse College, Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He holds a master’s degree from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He completed his residency training at George Washington University where he served as chief resident. Currently, Dr. Dark is an associate professor at the Henry J. N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Dark is the 2017 recipient of the Texas Medical Association’s C. Frank Webber Award, a 2019 American College of Emergency Physicians Choosing Wisely Champion, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association 2021 Joseph F. Waeckerle Alumni of the Year Award, one of emergency medicine’s Top 45 Under 45, and on Elemental’s List of 50 Experts to Trust in a Pandemic. He is currently on the Board of Directors for Doctors for America and the medical editor-in-chief for ACEP Now, the official voice of emergency medicine. .

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