Deficiencies in Electronic Medical Record Inpatient List Capabilities Negatively Impact Patient Safety, Resident Education, and Wellness.

Objective: Electronic medical records (EMRs) have streamlined workflows for health care professionals, yet their full potential is not always actualized. Modern EMRs are often capable of generating automated prepopulated inpatient lists, however if these capabilities are not made available to inpatient teams or not designed with the end user in mind, resident physicians may be left to create alternative, manual solutions to ensure reliable and efficient care. The purpose of the current study was to longitudinally compare the impact of both manual and automated inpatient lists on resident education, wellness, and patient safety.

Are methods to quantify osseous exposure in orthopedic surgery reliable?

Background: Our study examined if there were any limitations when using various measurement techniques in the literature to quantify osseous exposure. Additionally, we also examined if surface contour had any influence on obtained measurements, which no previous study has attempted.

Materials And Methods: Three methods used to quantify osseous exposure area were identified, one in which involves manually applying mesh over exposure area.