The authors did not included a review by a doctor of all illegible medical records.
To complicate matters, doctors jot patients' medical notes on paper, which can result in incomplete and illegible information being recorded.
Another problem was that entries within the record were illegible or written in phrases and abbreviations.
Records almost illegible between 1857-1861 because ink and pencil are so faded.
Because many pages of the film of these records are illegible it is difficult to pinpoint the source of this conflict.
Recorded an illegible birth year or name; 3. Enter the answer corresponding to a complete mark, if the survey respondent made both a partial and complete mark for two different answers to a question; and, 4. If two or more answers were marked for "Highest level of education", select the highest level of education marked.
During the months under review in 1946 1948, 81,529 death certificates were recorded, including 519 (0.6%) records with an illegible cause of death.
Of the 98 records selected, 80 were deemed usable (12 were excluded because of illegible hand writing on the medical record; 6 were excluded because the medical record only contained a pathology report).
Paper records are often illegible, incomplete, unavailable or even unknown by the multiple clinicians who treat a patient.
Possible sources of error occur throughout a study, and include deviations from the study protocol; inaccurate equipment; poorly designed forms; illegible, inaccurate, or incomplete data recording; errors or omissions in data transfer; inadequate training; intentional fraud; undocumented changes; programming errors; and misuse of statistical software [ 8].
Another 3,484 (11%) were admitted as inpatients; 35 of those records were excluded from analysis because of incomplete or illegible content, and thus 3,449 inpatient records constituted the study population.
