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Clinical prediction models for hospital falls: a scoping review protocol

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction Falls remain one of the most prevalent adverse events in hospitals and are associated with substantial negative health impacts and costs. Approaches to assess patients’ fall risk have been implemented in hospitals internationally, ranging ...
Steven M McPhail, Rex Parsons, Susanna M Cramb   +2 more
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Quality assessment of information about medications in primary care electronic patient record (EPR) systems

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2010
Background Many different brands of primary care electronic patient record (EPR) software are available to general practitioners (GPs). Their ability to support GPs in improving prescribing varies greatly.
Maria Pous, Marco Camporese, Alessandro Nobili, Serena Frau, Francesco DelZotti, Anita Conforti, Roberta Zimol, Guido Giustetto, Giulia Zermiani, Giuseppe Lombardo, Luigi Mezzalira   +10 more
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Views of diagnosis distribution in primary care in 2.5 million encounters in Stockholm: a comparison between ICD-10 and SNOMED CT

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2010
Background Primary care (PC) in Sweden provides ambulatory and home health care outside hospitals. Within the County Council of Stockholm, coding of diagnoses in PC is mandatory and is done by general practitioners (GPs) using a Swedish primary care ...
Anna Vikström, Mikael Nyström, Hans Åhlfeldt, Lars-Erik Strender, Gunnar Nilsson   +4 more
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Record keeping by Swiss physiotherapists

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2011
PURPOSE: A national survey conducted in Switzerland aimed to evaluate the knowledge of physiotherapists regarding the legal requirements for record keeping and to collect their feedback about record keeping in general.
C Richoz, A Ayer, S Richoz
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Validity of a computerised population registry of dementia based on clinical databases

Neurología (English Edition), 2021
Introduction: The handling of information through digital media allows innovative approaches for identifying cases of dementia through computerised searches within the clinical databases that include systems for coding diagnoses.
J. Mar, A. Arrospide, M. Soto-Gordoa, M. Machón, Á. Iruin, P. Martinez-Lage, A. Gabilondo, F. Moreno-Izco, A. Gabilondo, L. Arriola   +9 more
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Information retrieval in medicine: The electronic medical record as a new domain [PDF]

, 2006
This paper presents a document-centered approach to electronic health records as an information retrieval problem. It is clear that passage retrieval researchers working in the field of information science have seen similar values in document passages as
Smith, Catherine Arnott
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Comprehensive computerised primary care records are an essential component of any national health information strategy: report from an international consensus conference

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2004
In many countries, primary care informatics has developed to the point that it is recognised as an important enabler of quality improvement; this has not occurred to date in the United States.
Simon DeLusignan, Sheila Teasdale, David Little, John Zapp, Alan Zuckerman, David Bates, Andrew Steele   +6 more
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Using mobility status as a frailty indicator to improve the accuracy of a computerised five-level triage system among older patients in the emergency department

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background Owing to societal ageing, the number of older individuals visiting emergency departments (EDs) has increased in recent years. For this patient population, accurate triage systems are required.
Cheng-Yu Chien, Chung-Hsien Chaou, Chung-Cheng Yeh, Kuang-Hung Hsu, Shi-Ying Gao, Chip-Jin Ng   +5 more
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Effects of exam room EHR use on doctor-patient communication: a systematic literature review

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2014
Background High levels of funding have been invested in health information technologies, especially electronic health records (EHRs), in an effect to coordinate and organize patient health data.
Zainab Kazmi
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Approaches and challenges to optimising primary care teams’ electronic health record usage

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2014
Background Although the presence of an electronic health record (EHR) alone does not ensure high quality, efficient care, few studies have focused on the work of those charged with optimising use of existing EHR functionality.Objective To examine the ...
Nancy Pandhi, Wan-Lin Yang, Zaher Karp, Alexander Young, John W. Beasley, Sally Kraft, Pascale Carayon   +6 more
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