TY - JOUR T1 - Yonder: Near misses, cancer communities, binge-eating disorder, and food banks JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 30 LP - 30 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X700529 VL - 69 IS - 678 AU - Ahmed Rashid Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/678/30.abstract N2 - Yonder: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literatureWhat’s the optimal way to use electronic records during a consultation? If you stop the consultation and complete the records in silence, this clearly affects the communication flow. If you complete them when the patient has left, there is a risk of forgetting and increasing workload. As a result, many clinicians multitask. Californian researchers recently studied the effects of this type of multitasking on misses (errors not caught at the time) and near misses (mistakes that were caught before leading to errors).1 They interviewed physicians enrolled on a workshop about relationship-centred communication during clinician electronic health record use. Every single physician talked about misses or near misses … ER -