Can admission notes be improved by using preprinted assessment sheets?

Can admission notes be improved by using preprinted assessment sheets?

Inpatient medical notes often fail to record important details of patient history and findings on clinical examination. To overcome problems with content and legibility of notes we introduced preprinted notes for the admission of children to this hospital. The quality of the information recorded for 100 children whose admissions were clerked with the preprinted notes was compared with that reco...

Preprinted assessment sheet.

Can ICU admission be predicted?

How Can the Reliability of Radioecological Assessment Models Be Improved?

INTRODUCTION Assessment models are widely used to estimate the radiation exposure originating from routine or accidental releases of radionuclides into the environment. The major criterion for their quality is the reliability of their results. In this context reliability means that the results of model calculations are in fairly good agreement with the expected or observed contamination of the ...

Does Diarrhoea Causes Cataract? Can Cataract be Prevented by Aspirin?

Loss of transparency of the lens is termed cataract which is one of the commonest causes of blindness throughout the world. This major health problem appears to be much commoner in many developing countries such as India and Pakistan, where it causes visual disability at a substantially earlier age and several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this higher prevalence in these areas. Re...