It is possible that these patients, despite having more complicated medication lists, are reviewed more carefully and more frequently and thus have more accurate lists or that increased documentation of chronic disease burden is correlated with more accurate documentation of medication lists.
While certain physician and patient characteristics correlated with some measures of documentation quality, documentation varied depending on the measure.
A variety of characteristics correlated with medical record documentation, but no pattern emerged.
In a comprehensive, centralized electronic documentation system, the data from automated washer-disinfectors for medical devices (e.g., flexible endoscopes and accessories) need to be recorded and also correlated with the medical documentation process (e.g., the endoscopic examination).
We determined whether physician teaching status, physician gender, years since medical school, clinical hours per week of direct patient care, practice site, patient age, and patient gender were correlated with better chart documentation for each of the five measures.
We hypothesized a priori that physicians' teaching status would be correlated with the quality of documentation.
Although no characteristics consistently correlated with all measures of documentation quality, some characteristics had important relationships to certain measures.
We also aimed to examine the physician- and patient-level variables that correlated with the quality of medical record documentation.
Social activism and political documentation are no guarantors of a movie's artistic merit and aren't correlated with it in any way.
It's also disproportionately correlated with divorce.
