Save the general practice record.

A record system for general practice.

The art of record keeping in general practice.

Records. Why keep them? I have no doubt that some will say that they have no time to keep records-they are too busy; the answer to that is that if doctors keep good records they are not nearly so busy. They have the facts about their patients in front of them in black and white instead of in some inaccessible area of their brains. The patients get out of their surgeries in half the time; they a...

Feasibility and usefulness of family record cards in general practice.

In order to determine the feasibility of family record cards in general practice a research secretary created cards for 1825 households from a practice of 10 600 patients. The capital cost was pound108 and the time taken by the secretary was 1638 hours, which is equivalent to a wage of pound1330 for a maximum grade secretary, assuming a 70% rebate paid by the family practitioner committee. Appr...

Randomised studies in general practice: how to integrate the electronic patient record.

The 'randomised database study' strategy was first proposed in 1997, with the aim of combining the generalisability of observational database studies based on electronic patient records (EPRs) with the validity of randomised clinical trials (RCTs). The key feature was to randomly assign treatments and to use routine care data, as available in the observational database, for patient identificati...

Situating general practice training in the general practice context.