At 10:05 am +1000 20/7/06, Michael Tooth wrote:
[...]A number of GP's (thankfully a small number) down here use history items
as a way of writing what they feel are more useful referral letters
eg
Not OSTEOPOROSIS (coded)
But OSTEOPOROSIS on Dexa (-2.7) (uncoded)
Personally, I would find the second way more useful, rich and
specific. And it could be coded as well if the system supported that.
And recent first hand experience highlights that stuff still falls
between the cracks when people see more than one practitioner even
sharing an electronic record in the same practice. Published research
a decade ago I think by Kaiser Permanente demonstrated that care was
worse with more than one provider, even sharing the same record.
Ian.
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