Preserving the consultation: medical record cards and professional conduct.

Using professional interpreters in undergraduate medical consultation skills teaching

The ability to work with interpreters is a core skill for UK medical graduates. At the University of Sheffield Medical School, this teaching was identified as a gap in the curriculum. Teaching was developed to use professional interpreters in role-play, based on evidence that professional interpreters improve health outcomes for patients with limited English proficiency. Other principles guidin...

Medical discipline: the professional conduct jurisdiction of the General Medical Council, 1858–1990

The history of nursing in South Africa is one to which only an historian of ability can do justice. This unpromising topic-at least to South African eyes-encapsulates all the contradictions and ambiguities of life in a complex and divided society. Modem professional nursing developed late in South Africa, only after the discovery of diamonds attracted to disease-ridden Kimberley South Africa's ...

Medical Record Retrieval and Extraction for Professional Information Access

This paper analyzes the linguistic phenomena in medical records in different departments, including average record size, vocabulary, entropy of medical languages, grammaticality, and so on. Five retrieval models with six pre-processing strategies on different parts of medical records are explored on an NTUH medical record dataset. Both coarse-grained relevance evaluation on department level and...

Confidentiality Preserving Audits of Electronic Medical Record Access

Failure to supply a care provider with timely access to a patient's medical record can lead to patient harm or death. As such, healthcare organizations often endow care providers with broad access privileges to electronic medical record (EMR) systems. In doing so, however, care providers may access a patient's record without legitimate purpose and violate patient privacy. Healthcare privacy off...

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