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A López-Miras

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PubMed1996

[Evaluation of computerized medical records].

BACKGROUND: A wide and expensive supply of electronic medical records obliged us to evaluate them before selecting one. In this study a questionnaire was used to evaluate computerized medical records. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Descriptive and prospective study with personal interviews in which a questionnaire was used, that had been previously published. RESULTS: The 12 questionnaires were completed in 99%. The greatest difficulty for answering the questions was the medical terminology. Four of the twelve computer programs were designed for hospitals, another 4 were designed for health centers and the rest were designed for both hospitals and health centers. The preventive and social data and annex were the more scarce of the elements (47%). Postsells services (100%), the ICE-9-CM classification (75%) and medicals data (51%) were the more frequent elements. CONCLUSIONS: In Spain there are few medical records regulated, and computerized designers do not have a standard model. The sellers of medical record softwares don't have knowledge of medical terminology. Medical record software programs are not designed for specific health settings (health centers or hospitals).

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PubMed1994

[Consultations with third parties in general medicine].

OBJECTIVE: To quantify and describe consultations carried out with third parties in General Medicine. DESIGN: Prospective and descriptive study. SETTING: Three General Medical consulting rooms in INSALUD's Health Area IV, Madrid. PARTICIPANTS: All those consultations carried out with third parties from 15 February 1993 until 200 cases per doctor had been reached. INTERVENTION AND MAIN RESULTS: The data of the patient, the third party and the meeting were recorded for a total of 603 consultations using a third party. These consultations made up 18% of the total number at the three consulting rooms. According to the criterion of the doctor involved, more than half of these consultations were not clinically justified. People attended fundamentally to obtain prescriptions (76%), notes for short periods of time off work (9.6%) and referral to specialists (8.9%). The third party was usually a woman (62%) and spouse or mother of the patient (45 and 28%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: In the three General Medical consulting rooms studied, which were organized on the traditional model, third-party consultations are common and clinically unjustified in more than half the instances. These consultations are due fundamentally to difficulties of access to Primary Care services. Increasing the General Practitioner's availability for on-demand consultations could lessen this high incidence of third-party consultations.

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PubMed1993

[Primary care research: the content of articles published in scientific journals].

OBJECTIVE: The quantifying, by subject area, of research published in scientific journals on primary health care, in five different cultural/geographic areas. DESIGN: Descriptive study. SETTING: Scientific journals on primary health care. PARTICIPANTS: Original articles published in 1991 in the following journals on primary health care (general practice): Atención Primaria, Canadian Family Physician, Family Practice, Journal of Family Practice and Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. INTERVENTIONS AND MAIN RESULTS: The classification adopted here was that used in the research into primary health care by the Canadian Association of Family Physicians. The five journals between them published 263 original articles. Articles on organisation and provision of health services constituted 42% of the total; next in frequency were articles on epidemiology (18%) and on psychosocial concerns. Methodological studies and research into training and professional kills represent a scarce 6% and 8% respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The most commonly occurring subject in primary health care research is research on services. In the future it would be desirable to develop other areas (the clinical and psycho-social areas, methodology, and training).

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