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Publications and source records attributed to R A Shank.
Increased interest and use of urodynamic testing have led many clinicians to rely on the results for patient care. Numerous shortcomings and possible sources of error have been identified. Well trained personnel, properly structured examination rooms and understanding of the potential pitfalls in urodynamics are essential to proper medical management of patients with micturition problems.
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Our increasingly inefficient, cumbersome, often ineffective and time-consuming manual mental cataloguing and retrieving system indicated to us that there must be a better technique available. However, our search of existing systems failed to reveal any matching our needs. Therefore, we developed a 4-category system for cataloguing and retrieving urologic materials. Our program is divided into 3 sections: 1) index, 2) catalogued data and 3) computer programs. We have used this system for more than a year and believe that it has satisfied our original requirements. It is easily adaptable to changes of information, allows for identification of unlimited types of material, offers thorough and accurate data retrieval techniques and is economical now that the expense of organizing the system is behind.