Title
Identification of Special Patterns of Numerical Typographic Errors to Increases the Likelihood of Finding a Misplaced Patient File.
Abstract
When a typographic error of a patient identification number occurs on a patient document such as an envelope for radiology films or the cover of a patient record, it will result in misplacement of the document. Once misplaced, such documents are often extremely difficult to recover. After analyzing 290 numerical typos, we found that errors do not occur randomly. Instead, many of the typos share certain specific patterns. Six major types of non-random numeral typographic error patterns have been identified and their frequency characterized. Knowing these patterns and their odds increases the likelihood of finding a misplaced file. In addition, awareness of these patterns during transcribing or writing a patient ID may decrease the chance of typographic errors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1197/jamia.M1233
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Field
DocType
Volume
Transcription (linguistics),World Wide Web,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Odds,Numeral system
Conference
9.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SUP6.0
1067-5027
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ying-Chou Sun121.08
Dah-Dian Tang231.27
Qing Zeng354767.98
Robert Greenes4644106.18
YC Sun500.34
DD Tang600.34