title: An information system for emergency and out-patient departments.
abstract: Diagnoses are seldom coded in Out-Patient and Emergency Departments (EDs) in Canada, due, in large part, to the cost of manual coding. The lack of such diagnosis coding limits the information available to patient demographics, arrival mode, times of visits, and disposition. In the absence of diagnoses in a retrievable form, little information is available on just why patients came and what was done for them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. Canada, B3H 1R2.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Maxwell
mesh_terms: D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D002170:Canada; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006753:Hospital Records