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Caring for the patient, caring for the record: an ethnographic study of 'back office' work in upholding quality of care in general practice.
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The quality of information recorded about patient care is considered key to improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of patient care. Assigning codes to patients' records is an important aspect of this documentation. Current interest in large datasets in which individual patient data are collated (e.g. proposed NHS care.data project) pays little attention to the details of how 'data' get onto the record. This paper explores the work of summarising and coding records, focusing on '...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12913-015-0774-7
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Funding
+ Medical Research Council
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Grant:
Healthcare Electronic Records in Organisations 07/133
+ National Institute of Health Research
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Grant:
Doctoral fellowship award for DS (RDA/03/07/076
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC health services research Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 177
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
- DOI:
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1472-6963
- ISSN:
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1472-6963
- Source identifiers:
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519482
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- Language:
- English
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pubs:519482
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uuid:36292e5d-a152-4b47-8acd-eb1ac45551fe
- Local pid:
- pubs:519482
- Deposit date:
- 2016-01-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Swinglehurst and Greenhalgh
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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Copyright © Swinglehurst and Greenhalgh; licensee BioMed Central. 2015
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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