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Family Practice 2008 25(4):213-214; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmn047
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Editorial

Accuracy and completeness of electronic patient records in primary care

Azeem Majeeda, Josip Cara and Aziz Sheikhb

a Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London W6 8RP, UK
b Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX, UK

Correspondence to Professor Majeed, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London W6 8RP, UK; Email: a.majeed@imperial.ac.uk

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Family practitioners and other staff working in primary care require comprehensive and accurate data on patients at the point-of-care if they are to provide high quality health services to their patients. Electronic patient records are an effective method of achieving this objective, by dispensing with the need to use difficult to access, and often illegible, paper-based records. Hence, the implementation of electronic patient records in primary care is a key objective of many health care systems, including both the USA and UK.1 This reflects a growing recognition of the potential benefits of electronic records on the safety, quality and efficiency of healthcare. Electronic patient . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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