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- Title
Electronic Health Record and Problem Lists in Leeds, United Kingdom: Variability of general practitioners' views.
- Authors
Martin, Pablo Millares; Sbaffi, Laura
- Abstract
Data sharing of Electronic Health Records from general practices to secondary care in Leeds occurs through the so-called Leeds Care Records, which collects a specific set of codes from primary care, known as 'Active Problems', and presents it to the user. Variability on its content is a known issue. To explore general practitioners' views on their use of 'Active Problems' and on sharing data, so lessons could be learnt on how to homogenise and improve shared data. Assessing Leeds general practitioners' views through two parallel processes (60 online surveys and 17 interviews). General practitioners feel they do not have the time nor the training required for keeping a shared approach to concise and current Problem Lists in electronic patient records. Action is needed to reduce current variability, and to improve the quality of shared information. Some types of codes currently present in Problem Lists have very little support among general practitioners who consider the focus should be on long-term conditions and probably adding current acute diagnoses and life expectancy items and not omitting sensitive information. There is a perceived need of training and time to update Problem Lists if their quality is to improve.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ATTITUDE (Psychology); COMPUTER software; MEDICAL databases; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; INTERVIEWING; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL personnel; MEDICAL records; PATIENTS; PRIMARY health care; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SURVEYS; ACCESS to information
- Publication
Health Informatics Journal, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 3, p1898
- ISSN
1460-4582
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1460458219895184