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| Title |
Missing Clinical Information in NHS hospital outpatient clinics: prevalence, causes and effects on patient care
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, May 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-11-114 |
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| Authors |
Susan J Burnett, Vashist Deelchand, Bryony Dean Franklin, Krishna Moorthy, Charles Vincent |
| Abstract |
In Britain over 39,000 reports were received by the National Patient Safety Agency relating to failures in documentation in 2007 and the UK Health Services Journal estimated in 2008 that over a million hospital outpatient visits each year might take place without the full record available. Despite these high numbers, the impact of missing clinical information has not been investigated for hospital outpatients in the UK.Studies in primary care in the USA have found 13.6% of patient consultations have missing clinical information, with this adversely affecting care in about half of cases, and in Australia 1.8% of medical errors were found to be due to the unavailability of clinical information.Our objectives were to assess the frequency, nature and potential impact on patient care of missing clinical information in NHS hospital outpatients and to assess the principal causes. This is the first study to present such figures for the UK and the first to look at how clinicians respond, including the associated impact on patient care. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Guernsey | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 152 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Uruguay | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 144 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 33 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 13% |
| Researcher | 17 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 17 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 8% |
| Other | 25 | 16% |
| Unknown | 29 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 43 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 25 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 9% |
| Computer Science | 11 | 7% |
| Engineering | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 18 | 12% |
| Unknown | 36 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 December 2022.
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#30
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