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Missing clinical information in NHS hospital outpatient clinics: prevalence, causes and effects on patient care.
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BACKGROUND: In Britain over 39,000 reports were received by the National Patient Safety Agency relating to failures in documentation in 2007 and the UK Health Services Journal estimated in 2008 that over a million hospital outpatient visits each year might take place without the full record available. Despite these high numbers, the impact of missing clinical information has not been investigated for hospital outpatients in the UK.Studies in primary care in the USA have found 13.6% of patien...
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- 10.1186/1472-6963-11-114
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- 11
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- 1
- Pages:
- 114
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
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1472-6963
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1472-6963
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English
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- 2011
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- © 2011 Burnett et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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