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Graphic depictions of diagnostic test results (such as laboratory results) in commercial electronic health records are often unclear or misleading.J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Mar 18; [Epub ahead of print].

Graphical display of diagnostic test results in electronic health records: a comparison of 8 systems.

Sittig DF, Murphy DR, Smith MW, Russo E, Wright A, Singh H. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Mar 18; [Epub ahead of print].

Electronic medical records have the potential to improve clinical decision-making by synthesizing patient data over time—for example, by providing graphs showing changes in serial laboratory test results. However, this study found that the graphs in existing electronic medical records were often unclear or misleading, and therefore had the potential to cause diagnostic errors.

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