The number of new individuals encountered over successive study days was examined using the paper diary record, as this was the most complete.
Participants spent significantly more time completing the record using the paper version compared to the online version (34.4 vs. 28.5 min/day, p = 0.045).
In this protocol, we describe a study exploring differences in speed and accuracy when searching clinical information using the paper-based patient record or the Elektronische DateneRfassung (EDeR).
Accuracy of replies given using the EDeR system versus the paper record.
Our analysis demonstrates several difficulties the ward round team faced when interacting with each other using the electronic record compared with the paper one.
Investigators had to trace the June outbreak back through a complex, industrialized food chain which ships vegetables all over the country, often using handwritten, paper records.
I'm an emergency physician who had worked with an electronic medical record (EMR) for the past few years and then recently did some part-time work at an Indian Health Service hospital that used a paper record.
Practices with EMRs showed significantly improved documentation of CRC screening, from 725050%) to 76 (62%) (p = 0.05) while the practice using paper records had no change [111 (62%) pre-intervention; 104 (60%) post-intervention].
Before 1973, graphical methods were used to locate earthquakes in Taiwan using smoked paper records with manual timing from pendulum clocks at individual seismic stations.
Most physicians (36%) reported using only paper records; 29% reported using a combination of paper and computerised records; 27% were using EHRs; 4% were using scanned images of paper records and 3% were in the process of moving to an EHR.
