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Properly designed, the Computer-based Patient Record (CPR) has great potential. It can be used to facilitate continual improvement of quality patient care. At the same time, it can help with cost control. The CPR can produce these advantages by improving accessibility and utility of data related to patient care. Ultimately, it should enable clinicians to better understand the effects of clinical decisions on patient care outcomes. Clinicians can use that new knowledge to change practice in a way that improves the success of clinical protocols. The key to achievement of these benefits lies in the design of the system. The purpose of this paper is to describe one facet of the design of the CPR; design of the structure for the clinical content of the CPR.
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McHugh, M.L. (1998). Structuring Nursing Data for the Computer-Based Patient Record (CPR). In: Saba, V.K., Pocklington, D.B., Miller, K.P. (eds) Nursing and Computers. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2182-1_14
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