title: Towards a multi-professional patient record--a study of the headings used in clinical practice.
abstract: This paper reports on the differences and similarities of headings used in patient records by Swedish health care professionals; nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians, speech therapists, medical social workers and general practitioners. The background to the study is a national project where representatives from the different health care professions have worked together for two years in an effort to develop a multi-professional database of terms for the health care sector. The study reports on an analysis of the existing multi-professional lists of headings with respect to structure, degree of specialization, synonyms and homonyms. The study is descriptive in nature, gives a status report on the variety of headings used in clinical practice, provides necessary material for a normative approach focusing on a truly multiprofessional patient record in the future.
authors.affiliation: Linköping University, Sweden.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ahlfeldt
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ehnfors
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ridderstolpe
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D008499:Medical Records / Q000145:classification*; D011996:Records / Q000145:classification; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled