On the contrary Mary, that should not be the impression I intended to give.
What I was aiming to do was point out the pitfalls and some areas where improvement could be made.
The current biggest headaches to me are:
Inconsistent coding - where a single medical concept gets recorded with different but similar codes over time - this makes it difficult for a health professional to get a coherent picture of what has happened historically to an individual over time.
Lack of gardening of the EPR - significant or active problem lists end up with pages of lists, often containing trivia that obscures the main problems; and sometimes significant problems do not find themselves recorded as such and end up not showing up on the patients summary
Dai
PRIMIS
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Subject: PRIMIS on GP data quality at PHCSG conference 2013
http://phcsg.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Data-Quality-%E2%80%93-Data-fit-
for-Sharing.pdf
I have been looking for something on GP data quality for quite awhile - and had forgotten this.
Pity conference talks never have audio of the talk..
PRIMIS would seem to confirm my impression that GP data quality is so variable/poor that there is a question as to why anyone would want it!
Mary Hawking
Will I be seeing you at the PHCSG Confernce? http://phcsg.org/agm-2014/
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