Inadequate record keeping by dental practitioners

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Record keeping: developing good practice

THE LAST decade has seen a shift of attitude within the nursing profession towards the importance of record keeping. This change has been brought about predominantly by the promotion of patients’ rights and the empowerment of patients and relatives to be involved in their care, through the Patient’s Charter (DoH 1991). This has now been superseded by Patient Focus and Public Involvement (Scotti...

Standards in medical record keeping.

Medical records serve many functions but their primary purpose is to support patient care. The RCP Health Informatics Unit (HIU) has found variability in the quality of records and discharge summaries in England and Wales. There is currently a major drive to computerise medical records across the NHS, but without improvement in the quality of paper records the full benefits of computerisation a...

Management of dental infections by medical practitioners.

BACKGROUND Patients with dental infections frequently present to primary care practitioners such as emergency physicians or general practitioners. It is important for these healthcare professionals to understand how to assess and treat such conditions, including when to refer and to whom. OBJECTIVE This article aims to cover basic principles of managing patients with dental infections who pre...

Recognition-Primed Decision-Making: Implications for Record-Keeping by Organizations

... the sources of power that are needed in natural settings are usually not analytical at all -the power of intuition, mental simulation, metaphor, and storytelling... intuition enables us to size up a situation quickly ... mental simulation lets us imagine how a course of action might be carried out... metaphor lets us draw on our experience by suggesting parallels between the current situati...