Almost 100 cases of patient harm have been linked to Queensland's new electronic medical record system within a year, including instances of patients being administered incorrect doses of drugs.
Almost 100 cases of patient harm have been linked to Queensland's new electronic medical record system in just over a year, including instances of patients being administered incorrect doses of drugs.
In other examples, a child at the same hospital was given incorrect morphine over the course of a day, an adult at the Mackay Hospital was mistakenly given more than double the required units of insulin and another patient at the Sunshine Coast was administered morphine in milligrams instead of micrograms.
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