Data recorded in THIN include demographics, diagnoses, symptoms, prescriptions, life style information such as smoking or alcohol consumption, test results, height, weight, referrals to hospitals and specialists, and, on request, specialist letters and hospital discharge summaries.
This includes prescription data and specialists' letters.
The general practices supplied the reviewers with the electronic medical records of sampled patients, including information about the contact with the GP cooperative, test results, and specialists' letters.
The non-coded part contains essential information, such as patient-reported symptoms, signs, or summaries of specialists' letters in narrative form.
Less than a quarter of GPs feel the specialist's letter arrives on time.
Little known outside the United States, or to civil rights specialists, the 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' is a remarkable work, justifying his actions, in the cadences and soaring language which King would make immortal a few months later in his 'I Have A Dream' speech at a Washington rally.
The GPs filling in the questionnaires extracted relevant data from their own medical records and from hospital and specialist discharge letters.
For medical charts, data was extracted from the emergency department notes, inpatient notes, and specialist consultation letters by a trained research nurse.
Measures were developed to evaluate the extent to which physicians were using the EMR to record their patient clinical encounters (visit documentation), blood pressures, weights, laboratory tests, prescriptions, referrals, specialist consultation letters and the population of all the fields of the cumulative patient profile (CPP).
Specialist Arterbury's letter is etched into a glass wall that anchors the Vietnam memorial, now being remodeled.
