Current practices in discharge analysis and record assembly.
Are practitioners adopting the "less is best" philosophy for management of medical records? Making record abstracting less time consuming, and assembling charts to appear as they do on the patient units have been debated over recent years. This article reports on a survey of practitioners to see if newer methods are being adopted or if traditional practice prevails.
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Health Record Administration Program, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
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