On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:07:46AM +1000, Richard wrote: > I take in all you say. You must be fairly unique amongst doctors Karsten I cannot imagine a responsible doctor to not want to have structured data in the record (careful phrasing here). Maybe I just have to properly order/structure my notes so I can make up for the lack of quality of care that I deliver (just musing).
> or perhaps it is the german system, Definitely not. There is not any time during med school where we even hear about the fact that notes *could* be structured. > or the sort of clinic you work in. No, there's another doctor at that clinic who hardly captures much of anything (good for me so I can re-delegate all the paperwork on his patients to him ;-) > Reason: I've perused many many thousands of clinical records from patients > from many hundreds of doctors in my time, and it exceptionally rare to find > structured notes. Same here. Other clinics, other doctors, other mores. > In my 'on-the-ground' tutoring of GP's in the use of clinical record > programs, > and in projects where we wrote the software specifically to enforce entering > a reason for encounter (for research projects), we had a huge problem trying > to educate doctors how to use that, and also if they knew how, getting them > to fill it in. That doesn't mean we have to write crap software. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
