No most reports not worth reading. Coding also poor
Kind Regards
Chris Markwick
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On 14 Jul 2012, at 17:37, "Mary Hawking" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So was this due to the format of the report - or the quality of the person
> entering the data?
>
> *Is it significant that NO-ONE has said that the reports they receive are
> good*?
>
> Mary Hawking
> "thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
> can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4.
> don't forget patients like Fred!
> http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/whats-holding-fred-back/
> EMIS NUG Annual Conference - will you be there?
> www.emisnug.org.uk
> Warwick Conference 5th-7th Sept
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Trefor Roscoe
> Sent: 14 July 2012 16:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Quality of A&E reports: does anyone have examples of good ones?
>
> One of the best I have seen recently was
>
> Diagnosis "Brought in Dead"
>
> Treatment "Advice - verbal;"
>
> Presumably they told him not to die in the ambulance next time.
>
> Trefor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Piers Longhorn
> Sent: 12 July 2012 14:29
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Quality of A&E reports: does anyone have examples of good ones?
>
> Useless here in Cheshire as well. (My personal favourite was one saying
> "wrist fracture" which was true I would just have appreciated knowing the
> patient was in ICU, multiple injuries, splenectomy etc.) On 12 Jul 2012, at
> 14:19, Mary Hawking wrote:
>
>> Part of the plans for this year include looking at A&E attendances and
>> trying to identify whether patients attending A&E are doing so
>> inappropriately - and if so, changing the situation (patient
>> education, increased access to GP practice - e.g. staying open 24/7
>> ;-< etc.) [1]
>>
>> I have been looking through a pile of A&E reports - and the trouble is
>> the quality is so poor, it is often impossible to tell whether the
>> attendance was appropriate due to the format of the report!
>> We occasionally get reports from A&E departments other than the local one:
>> from the reports, it looks as though they are using different software
>> or templates - but the information content is equally abysmal and also
>> appears to be related to activity or billing management rather than
>> communication with the GP about patient care.
>>
>> Does anyone have any examples of A&E reports which provide good
>> quality clinically useful communications with enough information to
>> avoid the risks I fear from the ones we receive?
>> And if you do, could you tell me - off-line if preferred - which
>> hospitals use them and the system involved?
>>
>> [1] I am planning to write to a sample of patients, enclosing a copy
>> of the relevant A&E letter with a questionnaire and asking them what
>> actually did
>> happen: does anyone have any idea of what size sample I should aim at
>> to get significant results?
>>
>> Mary Hawking
>> "thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to
>> cats: we can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4.
>> don't forget patients like Fred!
>> http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/whats-holding-fred-b
>> ack/ EMIS NUG Annual Conference - will you be there?
>> www.emisnug.org.uk
>> Warwick Conference 5th-7th Sept
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