title: Homeless patients: designing a database for nursing documentation.
abstract: Care of the homeless in small out-patient clinic settings presents unique challenges in health care documentation. The transitory and infrequent episodic nature of client contact, as well as the inherent inefficiencies of the traditional paper chart, tend to minimize the collection of useful data for analyzing trends and patterns to identify and meet evolving health care needs.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, UNC-Charlotte.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Curran
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Curran
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Cody
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009737:Nursing Records