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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Main Authors: Burnett, S, Deelchand, V, Franklin, B, Moorthy, K, Vincent, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2011