Chart it once: innovation in public health documentation.
The Seattle-King County Department of Public Health implemented a revision in the charting for its Family Support programs with the goal of streamlining the entire charting process, reducing redundancy, improving quality, and improving productivity. This article applies diffusion of innovations theory to the process of changing documentation.
Zerwekh
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Florida Atlantic University, College of Nursing, Boca Raton 33431, USA. jzerwekh@fau.edu
Thibodeaux
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Plesko
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D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000379:methods*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014861:Washington