Medical records and population health

Roberts, Rosemary F; Hanson, Ralph M

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05545.x

Topics

Health services administration

The recording process needs to become more efficient, more useful to clinicians and multipurpose

1 National Centre for Classification in Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
2 The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW.

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