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>[log in to unmask],Internet wrote at 11:16 pm on 3/7/96
>to Adrian Midgley about "Re: Running immunisation clinics (Not a political
>topic!)":
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>>>Why do you write down the details ofimmunisations in more than one place?
>>
>>We write them in the patient's baby book as well as in the notes. We
>>also enter them on the computer.
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>Sort of dodged the question there.
>
>WHY do you write them in the two places as well as entering them on the
>computer?
>
>Suggestions:
>The patient's baby book is a device to enroll the parents in the
>healthcare etc of their child. have them write in it.
>If their accuracy is in doubt, give them a printout of the baby's
>immunisation record, set up to occur as an administrative action outside
>the clinic, without further instructions.
>If you feel the need of an ink record on paper in the pateint's notes,
>printout the patient's immunisation record, again, as a background,
>programmed, admin activity.
>
>Which record do you believe if there is a discrepancy?
>I submit it is better to double check one record and replicate it than to
>crowd in three.
>
>Do you also enter the details in a fourth place? The Health Visitor's
>record, or the scheduled/unscheduled imms forms for the health authority?
>--- OffRoad 1.9n registered to Adrian Midgley
Yes, we do. I like the idea of getting the parent to write the entry in
the baby book themselves.
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Paul J Scott, Primary Care Physician, United Kingdom.
Fax 44 (0)1935 410188
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