Documentation - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Quality management: protocols for reporting in-hospital emergencies. Comparison of two methods]

19 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: 10-20% of hospitalized patients experience adverse events, becoming clinically relevant in emergency situations (ES). Many studies have confirmed deficits in both organizational and professional aspects of care when ... Read more...

Labeling of contrast agent containers: a potential source of confusion and error.

30 Aug 2009 No imaging contrast agent is completely safe. There are opportunities for improving the safe use of contrast agents through a better understanding of potential errors that can occur as a result of confusing labeling on contrast agent containers. ... Read more...

Implementing end of life care for patients with renal failure.

30 Aug 2009 Traditional palliative care services have focused on individuals with cancer. The NHS National End of Life Care Programme, launched in December 2003, has been working to address this anomaly and to try to enhance end of life care provision for other ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Documentation - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Quality management: protocols for reporting in-hospital emergencies. Comparison of two methods] 19 Oct 2009
• Labeling of contrast agent containers: a potential source of confusion and error. 30 Aug 2009
• Implementing end of life care for patients with renal failure. 30 Aug 2009
• The nursing professional portfolio: leveraging your talents. 30 Aug 2009
• Suggestion for the radiology report of the future. 30 Aug 2009
• Importance of ultrasound for diagnosing periphereal arterial disease. 15 Aug 2009
• Mobile and fixed computer use by doctors and nurses on hospital wards: multi-method study on the relationships between clinician role, clinical task, and device choice. 2 Aug 2009
• The development of an ePortfolio for life-long reflective learning and auditable professional certification. 30 Jul 2009
• Patient charting. Turning a routine activity into an opportunity for injury prevention. 30 Jul 2009
• Shining light in dark places. Child abuse hurts a physician as well as her young patient. 30 Jul 2009
• Improving patient safety with the use of surgical checklists. 30 Jul 2009
• American Society of Radiation Oncology recommendations for documenting intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatments. 30 Jul 2009
• [Implementation of a web based software for documentation and control of quality of an acute pain service] 21 Jul 2009
• Documenting and improving opioid treatment: the Prescription Opioid Documentation and Surveillance (PODS) System. 4 Jul 2009
• Dilemmas, tetralemmas, reimagining the electronic health record. 29 Jun 2009
• Measuring spiritual care with informatics. 29 Jun 2009
• Using self-study modules to improve wound care documentation by the staff nurse. 29 Jun 2009
• [Determination of death and post-mortem examination on the high seas] 29 Jun 2009
• Patient safety. Push for hospitals to use surgical checklist getting results. 29 Jun 2009
• Record retention: what's your facility's policy. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Documentation'

Definition: Systematic organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of specialized information, especially of a scientific or technical nature (From ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983). It often involves authenticating or validating information.

Descriptor UI: D004282

Alternative terms: Documentation; Documentations;

Related Mesh Headings: Records as Topic;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: L01.453.245;

History Note: 66; was see under BIBLIOGRAPHY 1963-65

Technical Notes: med docum: do not coord with MEDICINE