Millares Miller, P. and Sbaffi, L. orcid.org/0000-0003-4920-893X (2020) Electronic health record and problem lists in Leeds, United Kingdom: Variability of general practitioners’ views. Health Informatics Journal, 26 (3). pp. 1898-1911. ISSN 1460-4582
Abstract
Data sharing of Electronic Health Records from general practices to secondary care in Leeds occurs through the so-called Leeds Care Records, which collects a specific set of codes from primary care, known as ‘Active Problems’, and presents it to the user. Variability on its content is a known issue. To explore general practitioners’ views on their use of ‘Active Problems’ and on sharing data, so lessons could be learnt on how to homogenise and improve shared data. Assessing Leeds general practitioners’ views through two parallel processes (60 online surveys and 17 interviews). General practitioners feel they do not have the time nor the training required for keeping a shared approach to concise and current Problem Lists in electronic patient records. Action is needed to reduce current variability, and to improve the quality of shared information. Some types of codes currently present in Problem Lists have very little support among general practitioners who consider the focus should be on long-term conditions and probably adding current acute diagnoses and life expectancy items and not omitting sensitive information. There is a perceived need of training and time to update Problem Lists if their quality is to improve.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Authors 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | attitude of health personnel; Electronic Health Record; primary care; Problem-Oriented Medical Record; software/utilisation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2019 14:19 |
Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2021 16:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1460458219895184 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154053 |