Physician utilization of medical records: preliminary determinations
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Medical Informatics
- Vol. 3 (1), 27-35
- https://doi.org/10.3109/14639237809016060
Abstract
A study is reported of the ways in which 26 physicians, mostly internists, use the medical record. It was found that the items of greatest importance to the physicians, from the viewpoints of frequency of usage and of occasional interruption of the physician-patient transaction by being absent, were lab-test results, X-ray data, patient history, and previous treatments. The most common general problems cited with the medical record were incompleteness (named by 38 per cent of the physicians), illegibility (27 per cent), and poor organization of the record (19 per cent). Cet article décrit l'utilisation que font des dossiers médicaux 26 médeeins, internistes pour la plupart. Cette étude montre que les critères qui ont la plus grande importance pour les médecins, du point de vue de leur fréquence d'utilisation et des manques, sont les résultats d'analyses biologiques, les données radiologiques, l'anamnèse et les traitements antérieurs. Les problèmes les plus courants sont liés au caractère incomplet des dossiers médicaux (27%) et à leur manque de structuration (17%).Keywords
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