Redundancy of Progress Notes for Serial Office Visits.

Hribar, Michelle R; Rule, Adam; Huang, Abigail E; Dusek, Haley; Goldstein, Isaac H; Henriksen, Brad; Lin, Wei-Chun; Igelman, Austin et al. · Ophthalmology · 2020

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Abstract

Using sequence alignment to compare more than 12,000 pairs of progress notes, we find that progress notes were, on average, 74.5% redundant with the prior progress note written for the same patient.

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