Australian perspective: patient care review and the quality of medical recording.
The author discusses the changing role of Australian medical record practitioners as greater emphasis is being placed on evaluating patient care and professional performance. The challenges facing medical record practitioners in an age of rapid technological change, accountability and cost containment are reviewed. Attention is drawn to the need for medical record practitioners to play a positive role in assessing not only the quality of medical recording but also the effectiveness of the various quality assurance activities undertaken to demonstrate the quality of medical record services provided.
D001315:Australia; D008497:Medical Record Administrators; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012380:Role