The primary purpose of the medical record is to support clinical care of patients by keeping an accurate record of their condition and of treatment given or planned; its second role is as a source of information for management; but its uses do not end there. Both the medical record itself, and information derived from it at one or more removes, are important tools in medical research, audit and evaluation of services. This paper describes the use of routine NHS activity data in general, and the medical record in particular, in epidemiology. As the author works at the Institute of Child Health, most of the examples cited involve children.
{"title":"Epidemiological use of NHS activity data.","authors":"M Glickman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The primary purpose of the medical record is to support clinical care of patients by keeping an accurate record of their condition and of treatment given or planned; its second role is as a source of information for management; but its uses do not end there. Both the medical record itself, and information derived from it at one or more removes, are important tools in medical research, audit and evaluation of services. This paper describes the use of routine NHS activity data in general, and the medical record in particular, in epidemiology. As the author works at the Institute of Child Health, most of the examples cited involve children.</p>","PeriodicalId":79557,"journal":{"name":"AMRO","volume":"32 1","pages":"18-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20983495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The past few years have seen a considerable increase in the use of external consultants within the National Health Service. Given the costs of using such personnel, it is vital that the employing organisation obtains the benefits from day one.
{"title":"Getting the best out of your consultant.","authors":"N Gerrard","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The past few years have seen a considerable increase in the use of external consultants within the National Health Service. Given the costs of using such personnel, it is vital that the employing organisation obtains the benefits from day one.</p>","PeriodicalId":79557,"journal":{"name":"AMRO","volume":"31 4","pages":"17-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A move to Region from patient services management may sound like the death knell to many, but it has certainly given me the opportunity to look at records management in more strategic terms and to meet many colleagues in health records departments throughout this region.
{"title":"Clinical records management--the future.","authors":"S J Leighton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A move to Region from patient services management may sound like the death knell to many, but it has certainly given me the opportunity to look at records management in more strategic terms and to meet many colleagues in health records departments throughout this region.</p>","PeriodicalId":79557,"journal":{"name":"AMRO","volume":"31 4","pages":"20-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 'Guidelines to Clinical Audit in Surgical Practice' issued in March 1989 by the Royal College of Surgeons of England comprised an outline of the underlying principles of clinical audit and the basic components of a surgical audit programme.
{"title":"Guidelines for clinicians on medical records and notes. Royal College of Surgeons of England.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 'Guidelines to Clinical Audit in Surgical Practice' issued in March 1989 by the Royal College of Surgeons of England comprised an outline of the underlying principles of clinical audit and the basic components of a surgical audit programme.</p>","PeriodicalId":79557,"journal":{"name":"AMRO","volume":"31 3","pages":"18-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20980735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The concept of "infection" has been well known to the medical world ever since an interest began to be taken in medicine. Infection has taken many hundreds of thousands of lives, and even today it is a very serious threat for human beings. Hospital, or nosocomial infections (NCI) are a major health problem in every medical institution in the world. In the light of the seriousness of the problem, this paper is to demonstrate how medical records can play an important role in effective alerting and infection control programmes before an outbreak turns into an epidemic.
{"title":"The role of medical records in infection control.","authors":"G D Mogli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concept of \"infection\" has been well known to the medical world ever since an interest began to be taken in medicine. Infection has taken many hundreds of thousands of lives, and even today it is a very serious threat for human beings. Hospital, or nosocomial infections (NCI) are a major health problem in every medical institution in the world. In the light of the seriousness of the problem, this paper is to demonstrate how medical records can play an important role in effective alerting and infection control programmes before an outbreak turns into an epidemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":79557,"journal":{"name":"AMRO","volume":"31 3","pages":"12-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20980734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is now over two years since the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary implemented its locally developed computerised Medical Records Tracking System. The benefits of the system, which has turned a well organised Central Records Library into a highly efficient production unit for the Aberdeen Hospitals handling some 3,000 medical record movements per day, can best be illustrated by knowing that there were only 10 missing medical records for the 70,000 attendances at outpatient clinics over the last 3 month period.
{"title":"Revolution in medical records tracking.","authors":"K M Ewen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is now over two years since the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary implemented its locally developed computerised Medical Records Tracking System. The benefits of the system, which has turned a well organised Central Records Library into a highly efficient production unit for the Aberdeen Hospitals handling some 3,000 medical record movements per day, can best be illustrated by knowing that there were only 10 missing medical records for the 70,000 attendances at outpatient clinics over the last 3 month period.</p>","PeriodicalId":79557,"journal":{"name":"AMRO","volume":"31 2","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20975700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recognition of the need to manage a complex healthcare environment more precisely has significantly expanded the demand for management information. Present government initiatives such as resource management and the White Papers proposals for the NHS have increased the demands on health authorities to provide more detailed reporting and accounting of resources. Effective information handling is thus becoming the key for a growing number of health authorities and hospitals, combined with easy access to up-to-date information for resource management and consistent, planned treatment programmes.
{"title":"Relational database technology in healthcare--the way forward.","authors":"P Christoforou","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recognition of the need to manage a complex healthcare environment more precisely has significantly expanded the demand for management information. Present government initiatives such as resource management and the White Papers proposals for the NHS have increased the demands on health authorities to provide more detailed reporting and accounting of resources. Effective information handling is thus becoming the key for a growing number of health authorities and hospitals, combined with easy access to up-to-date information for resource management and consistent, planned treatment programmes.</p>","PeriodicalId":79557,"journal":{"name":"AMRO","volume":"31 2","pages":"27-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20975699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A world of difference.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79557,"journal":{"name":"AMRO","volume":"31 1","pages":"16-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20977196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}