Missing clinical information in NHS hospital outpatient clinics: prevalence, causes and effects on patient care.
BACKGROUND: In Britain over 39,000 reports were received by the National Patient Safety Agency relating to failures in documentation in 2007 and the UK Health Services Journal estimated in 2008 that over a million hospital outpatient visits each year might take place without the full record availab...
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BioMed Central
2011
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