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STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to report on the extent to which death certificates which specify that death occurred in hospital can be matched and linked with routine hospital inpatient information systems. DESIGN--The study involved linkage of hospital records which specified tha...

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to assess the extent to which routinely collected data on poisoning in adolescents reflected deliberate self poisoning and, in doing, so to assess the accuracy of the diagnostic information on poisoning in the routine hospital abstracts which form the...

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the level of inappropriate utilisation of a teaching hospital in two different calendar years and to analyse the relationship between changes in appropriateness of utilisation and changes in average length of stay. DESIGN: Retrospective evaluation of t...

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We have examined the death certificates from all patients aged 35-64 years who were recorded as dying from asthma in Greater London Council hospitals in 1971. Of the 47 death certificates studied, nine suggested that the primary cause of death was not asthma. From the remaining 3...

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STUDY OBJECTIVE: To analyse factors associated with birth weight and to evaluate the validity of obstetrical data. DESIGN: Obstetrical data were retrieved for singleton men born in 1913 and living in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1963. Information on birth weight, maternal age, marital s...

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to evaluate the appropriateness of postal questionnaires in studies of spontaneous abortion in a general population. DESIGN--Survey of spontaneous abortions by comparing diagnoses reported in questionnaires to information collected from hospital recor...

T he aim of this study is to analyze the view of nurses about nursing records in the patient chart, in perspective of the record of humanized care. This is a case study, with qualitative approach. For its achievement, was sought and granted authorization from the direction of the...

ABSTRACT Background: There is little information on herpes zoster from hospital registries in South America. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical aspects of herpes zoster (HZ) in hospitalized patients.' Methods: We searched for hospital-based r...

The cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the hospital is a very complex event, requiring from its staff scientific knowledge as well as skills when attending on the event and when registering specific data on the medical chart. This study focuses on the evaluation of the ethical and ...

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A study was carried out to assess the feasibility of using record linkage for drug monitoring. For two years, three types of records were collected for a total of 43 117 people: (1) details of basic attributes, such as sex and age; (2) details of prescriptions dispensed; and (3) ...

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OBJECTIVE--To assess the quality of anaesthesia care from the patients' viewpoint compared with the hospital record. DESIGN--Prospective study during 1988-9. SETTING--Four teaching hospitals (A-D) in Canada. PATIENTS--15,960 inpatients receiving anaesthetic requiring at least an ...

The collection of data by abstraction from patient records is a widely used method of research, evaluation, and registry. Since valid conclusions depend on the accuracy of the abstracted data, it is essential to examine the abstracting procedures. In this paper, we report on a st...

OBJECTIVES--To report on the development of computer assisted methods for linking medical records and record abstracts. DESIGN--The methods include file blocking, to put records in an order which makes searching efficient; matching, which is the process of comparing records to de...

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