medium · GRE Verbal
Two years ago, Riverbend Hospital replaced handwritten prescriptions with an electronic prescribing system designed to reduce medication errors. The system checks every order for dosage mistakes and drug interactions. Yet in the year after the system was introduced, the number of medication errors recorded at the hospital was 40 percent higher than in the year before.
Which of the following, if true, does most to resolve the apparent paradox described above?
- The hospital's pharmacists received extensive training on the electronic system before its launch.
- Hospitals nationwide report widely varying rates of medication errors from one year to the next.
- The new system automatically logs many minor errors that previously went entirely undocumented.
- Some physicians at Riverbend initially found the electronic system slower to use than handwriting.
- Medication errors recorded at Riverbend during the year rarely resulted in serious harm to patients.
Sign up free to see the explanation and track your rank →
More GRE Verbal practice
- Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the paradox?
- The novelist was known for his ________ descriptions of nature, which often spanned severa
- The sudden ________ in the expansion of the metropolitan district was attributed to the en
- Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the paradox?
- Naturalist: The blue-throated warbler and the gray-crowned warbler occupy the same forest
- Had the investigator been more ________, she might have discovered the discrepancy in the
- A software firm requires that every new feature pass an automated test suite before it is
- Naturalist: On this island, the native songbird population has declined sharply over the p