Concerns have been raised over patient safety, after a poll revealed thousands of appointments are taking place without the patient's records. Around 54,000 outpatient appointments took place with no records across the 49 hospital trusts who responded. The investigation, by the Health Service Journal (HSJ) said there was no standardised way of measuring how many patient records are missing each year. A medical expert said it was dangerous not to have patient records available.
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Patient safety worry over records - BBC Health News 21st May 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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Nice blog with good information. A medical record is very important in the medical field as it is a reference to each patient with valuable information about the patient.
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