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Evaluation of General Practice Computer Templates

We conducted a pilot randomised trial of computerised templates for the management of asthma and diabetes in general practice in six general practices in North London...

Keywords: General Practice, Computers, Decision-support Systems, Templates, Randomised Studies

09/1999 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Role of the Electronic Patient Record in the Development of General Practice in the Netherlands

From the end of the seventies practice computer systems have been introduced in Dutch general practice...

Keywords: General Practice, Computer, Research Networks, Quality of Care, Electronic Patient Record

12/1999 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Design of a Decision Support System for Test Ordering in General Practice: Choices and Decisions to Make

The increased availability of tests in the past years has been accompanied by an increased number of blood tests ordered by general practitioners...

Keywords: Decision Support, Guidelines, Test-ordering Behavior, General Practice

12/1999 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Managers See the Problems Associated with Coding Clinical Data as a Technical Issue whilst Clinicians also See Cultural Barriers

OBJECTIVE: In UK general practice, the coding of clinical data (Read Coding) is far from universal. This study set out to examine the barriers to recording structured information in computerised medical records; and to explore whether managers and clinicians had different perspectives in how these barriers should be overcome. METHOD: A qualitative study, using semi-structured interviews of general practitioners, primary care nurses and practice managers...

Keywords: Structured data, classification systems, computerised medical record, primary care, General Practice, Medical Informatics

01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

We Fill in Our Working Understanding: On Codes, Classifications and the Production of Accurate Data

OBJECTIVES: This paper describes differences in the way general practitioners in Denmark, The Netherlands and Great Britain make codes fit into the local conditions under which they work. METHODS: An ethnographic study method has been used to collect data in Dutch, British and Danish general practices. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The paper argues that what counts as accurate data is locally constructed...

Keywords: Diagnostic codes, classification systems, General Practice, Electronic Patient Record, localization, accuracy, ethnography.