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Monitoring Reasons for Encounter via an Electronic Patient Record System: the Case of a Rural Practice Initiative

The objective of this brief communication was to tabulate common reasons for encounter in a Greek rural general practice, as result of a recently adopted electronic patient record (EPR) application. Twenty encounter reasons accounted for 3,797 visits (61% of all patient encounters), whereas 565 othe...

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Autores principales: Klinis, Spyridon, Markaki, Adelais, Kounalakis, Dimitrios, Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ivyspring International Publisher 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23091407
http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijms.4999
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description The objective of this brief communication was to tabulate common reasons for encounter in a Greek rural general practice, as result of a recently adopted electronic patient record (EPR) application. Twenty encounter reasons accounted for 3,797 visits (61% of all patient encounters), whereas 565 other reasons accounted for the remaining 2,429 visits (39%). Number one reason for encounter was health maintenance or disease prevention seeking services, including screening examinations for malignancies, immunization and provision of medical opinion reports. Hypertension, lipid disorder and ischemic heart disease without angina were among the most common reasons for seeking care. A strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats (SWOT) analysis on the key role of an EPR system in collecting data from rural and remote primary health care settings is also presented.
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spelling pubmed-34776792012-10-22 Monitoring Reasons for Encounter via an Electronic Patient Record System: the Case of a Rural Practice Initiative Klinis, Spyridon Markaki, Adelais Kounalakis, Dimitrios Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K. Int J Med Sci Letter To The Editor The objective of this brief communication was to tabulate common reasons for encounter in a Greek rural general practice, as result of a recently adopted electronic patient record (EPR) application. Twenty encounter reasons accounted for 3,797 visits (61% of all patient encounters), whereas 565 other reasons accounted for the remaining 2,429 visits (39%). Number one reason for encounter was health maintenance or disease prevention seeking services, including screening examinations for malignancies, immunization and provision of medical opinion reports. Hypertension, lipid disorder and ischemic heart disease without angina were among the most common reasons for seeking care. A strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats (SWOT) analysis on the key role of an EPR system in collecting data from rural and remote primary health care settings is also presented. Ivyspring International Publisher 2012-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3477679/ /pubmed/23091407 http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijms.4999 Text en © Ivyspring International Publisher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Reproduction is permitted for personal, noncommercial use, provided that the article is in whole, unmodified, and properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477679/
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