Hi Tim, Do not have a link handy but I do recall that the EMR discussions in the NHS introduced this and discussed it at length. Structuring data entry format went a long way toward improving it. I'll see if I can come up with a link.
-Thomas Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Churches" <tc...@optushome.com.au> To: "lakewood @ copper . net" <lakewood at copper.net> Cc: "Tim Churches" <tchur at optushome.com.au>; "openhealth-list @ minoru-development . com" <openhealth-list at minoru-development.com>; "Karsten Hilbert" <Karsten.Hilbert at gmx.net>; "openehr-technical @ openehr . org" <openehr-technical at openehr.org> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Re: Trusting the contents of EHRs > lakewood at copper.net <lakewood at copper.net> wrote: > ---snip--- > > Not trusting the content of the records is a Practitioner problem. > ---snip--- > Indeed, although in their defence, almost every Practitioner will have anecdotal > evidence justifying their lack of faith in the record. My question was, has anyone > considered this issue in detail? How pervasive is the level of distrust, how variable > is it with respect to system and data source, what will it take to change these > attitudes? I suspect that information about quantitative test and investigation > results contained in an EMR/EHR are probably quite well trusted (hopefully > justifiably), but "softer", more qualitative information less so eg does the patient > have any medication allergies? There is plenty of room for doubt and variable > interpretaion regardless of whether that question is answered in the positive or > the negative. > > Of course, these are broad sociological questions, and these are the wrong > forums in which to ask such questions. I was just curious to know if anyone was > aware of any specific research being undertaken to address these questions? > yes, I am about to do a PubMed search now... > > Tim C > > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
