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Reducing risk and improving quality of patient care in hospital: the contribution of standardized medical records
Clinical Risk, 09/17/09

Ram MB et al. – The article addresses a range of factors in relation to the medical record and reports on a project led by the Health Informatics Unit of the Royal College of Physicians of London. It includes discussion on the need to improve the quality of the information documented, the benefits of standardizing the medical record and describes a recently completed project developing national standards for structure and content of hospital admission records, and handover and discharge documentation.

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Mala Bridgelal Ram, 09/22/09

This paper describes work on for hospital inpatients in the UK. It has been picked up internationally. We now hope to continue this work addressing outpatient documentation and specialist clinics.

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