Data publication implementations differ in a variety of factors, including the kind of documentation, the location of the documentation relative to the data, and how the data is validated.
Ideally, the comorbidity information obtained from a variety of patient documentation sources should be similar, although there are likely important reasons why different data acquisition methods may vary in detection of individual comorbidities.
However, there is a wide variety of documents which are required, such as operational requirement, design proposal, technical specification, contractual specification, and final system documentation.
But Ms. Fung said the passengers had a variety of problems with their documentation.
A variety of pain assessment and documentation tools were used across the different hospital settings, resulting in a patient's pain being documented in a variety of different places.
The undercoding of sepsis could be due to a variety of other reasons including physician documentation in the medical record.
This analysis should highlight that – even for this rather restricted case study and the limited focus on nursing documentation – a variety of factors can be found that influence the fit between individuals, technology and task and therefore IT adoption.
The Office of the National Coordinator has defined a minimum list of EHR functionalities, known as "meaningful use" criteria, intended to promote the effective use of the EHR to drive improvements in safety, quality and efficiency [ 3]. "Meaningful use" requires a variety of EHR functions, ranging from visit documentation to clinical decision support [ 1].
