title: Computer-assisted research of medical records: a facilitated access file for physical examination, laboratory, and diagnostic data.
abstract: The Facilitated Access File, described herein, has proved to be an acceptable, relatively simple, yet feasible strategy for general medical record information retrieval at a university hospital clinic. Physicians record physical examination data in free-text mode, then through a rapid exercise of judgment, create an index to these data which is computer-stored. Such an index file provides future investigators facilitated access back to the original handwritten data and permits a variety of statistical studies. The system has been in use for over a year and has proved to be of value in clinical research and student teaching.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Schneiderman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baylor
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003625:Data Collection; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006302:Health Services Research; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010808:Physical Examination