title: Quality of Scottish Morbidity Record (SMR) data.
abstract: SMR1 is an episode based record relating to all inpatients and day cases discharged from non psychiatric, non obstetric wards in Scottish hospitals. A record is raised when a patient is discharged from hospital, changes consultant or is transferred to another hospital. SMR1 records contain clinical and non clinical data. Approximately 1 million records are created annually.
authors.affiliation: Quality Assessment and Accreditation Unit, Common Services Agency, Edinburgh.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harley
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D006753:Hospital Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D018401:Sample Size; D012606:Scotland