… documentation during anesthesia. Specifically, we tested whether our documentation …
incidence of a clinical documentation error that was present in many of our records; namely, …

… , and capture lost revenue by developing software and instituting a computerized system that
would automatically search electronic anesthetic records for documentation errors and alert …

… When electronic anesthesia records are compared to pharmacy transactions, discrepancies
in total doses of controlled drugs are commonly found (≈16% of cases), potentially affecting …

… the accuracy of documentation of intraoperative events. AIMS, which is built around the
electronic anesthesia record, allows the anesthesia provider to easily document his or her care …

… It is important to remember that a physician’s main focus is to provide exceptional patient
care; busy clinicians are more likely to commit documentation errors when entering items while …

… about pre-anesthesia electronic documentation or has … “type of record” (paper-based or
electronic documentation), … The errors found in the electronic pre-anesthesia forms were …

… and incompleteness in the electronic anesthesia records generated by an AIMS and to
formulate recommendations for system changes that will reduce the identified sources of error. …

… A missing anesthetic record on a patient with a poor outcome may lead to unfounded
allegations of unethical conduct, such as covering up a medical error. For example, failure to …

… record by directing them to the quality windows following any attempt to close the anaesthesia
record… steps into the workflow of the electronic anaesthesia record, and as a minimum, the …

… The most commonly cited benefit was more accurate clinical documentation, … electronic
anesthesia records have been reviewed to ascertain the frequency of drug administration errors …