Fragmented patient records and duplicate or overlaid medical records remain a persistent safety and cost risk across U.S. health systems. Duplicate medical record creation happens when a single ...

Patients with duplicate medical records are five times more likely to die after being admitted to hospital and three times more likely to require intensive care than those with a single medical record ...

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Patients with duplicate medical records were five times more likely to die in hospital and three times more likely to require intensive care than those without duplicate charts. Hospital length of ...