Hospital records--asset or liability?
Health records of different sorts have been shown--in one region--to cost 13m pounds a year, and to take up 10 miles of shelving. Across one region, records would take up the length of the M4. Terry Gould and colleagues describe a project to establish some protocols for sensible record keeping.
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St George's Hospital, London.
Merrett
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Newton
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