International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care
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Int J Qual Health Care · Jun 1999
The quality of abstracting medical information from the medical record: the impact of training programmes.
To evaluate the impact of a programme of training, education and awareness on the quality of the data collected through discharge abstracts. ⋯ Training and continuous monitoring, and feedback of information to departments have proved to be successful in improving the quality of abstracting information at patient level from the medical record. The effort to increase administrative data quality at hospital level will facilitate the use of those data sets for internal quality management activities and for population-based quality of care studies.