Here’s
an interesting article from today’s news:
Although
it is about nurses rather than biomedical scientists it gave me pause for
thought. Basically (among other misdemeanours) two nurses didn’t perform
routine near-patient glucose testing; preferring to make the results up
themselves.
In
the first instance I can’t help but feel that were these tests done in a
laboratory setting there would be an audit trail including analyser information
which would make getting away with such fabrication of results rather more
difficult.
However
given a manual system with no such electronic audit trail surely it is actually
far easier to do the test than to try to make up plausible results. Such
blagged results are going to be rather obvious if and when the patient’s
clinical condition deteriorates.
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