Record Keeping as an Aid to Enforcement

Keeping track of AID

966 JEM Vol. 204, No. 5, 2007 A DNA-mutating enzyme that fine-tunes B cell antibody specificity can become a dangerous liability if its activity is mistimed, misplaced, or left unchecked. Crouch et al. (page 1145) have now designed a mouse model to track the enzyme’s activity in B cells during development and immunity. The model can now be used to determine how the enzyme’s destructive force is...

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drawing diagrams as an aid to architectural design process

designers draw diagrams to think about architectural concepts and design concerns. scientists are interested in programming computers to recognize and interpret design diagrams to deliver appropriate tools for the design task at hand. researchers conducted empirical studies to find out if designers share drawing conventions when designing. the experiment results show that designers use differen...

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 This has now been superseded by Patient Focus and Public Involvement (Scotti...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...