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Outpatient medical records: improvements through layout engineering. 1977

G B Cook

Dissatisfied with some functional aspects of the problem-oriented medical records used by their medical group, a committee of member physicians redesigned their office charts. Applying techniques of systematic layout planning, employed regularly as a tool of industrial engineering, these clinicians devised what they feel to be outpatient document with unique features. The resulting product forms a cohesive unit, eliminates duplication and provides many medicolegal safeguards.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008499	Medical Records	Recording of pertinent information concerning patient's illness or illnesses.	Health Diaries,Medical Transcription,Records, Medical,Transcription, Medical,Diaries, Health,Diary, Health,Health Diary,Medical Record,Medical Transcriptions,Record, Medical,Transcriptions, Medical
D008501	Medical Records, Problem-Oriented	A system of record keeping in which a list of the patient's problems is made and all history, physical findings, laboratory data, etc. pertinent to each problem are placed under that heading.	Problem-Oriented Medical Records,Medical Record, Problem-Oriented,Medical Records, Problem Oriented,Record, Problem-Oriented Medical,Records, Problem-Oriented Medical,Medical Record, Problem Oriented,Problem Oriented Medical Records,Problem-Oriented Medical Record,Record, Problem Oriented Medical,Records, Problem Oriented Medical
D002140	California	State bounded on the east by Nevada and Arizona, on the south by Mexico and the Pacific Ocean on the south and west, and on the north by Oregon.