scholarly journals Managing Medical Records in Specialist Medical Centres

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.7) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Mastura Md Zali ◽  
Saiful Farik Mat Yatin ◽  
Mohd Razilan Abdul Kadir ◽  
Siti Noraini Mohd Tobi ◽  
Nurul Hanis Kamarudin ◽  
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A collection of facts about a patient’s life and health history of past and present illnesses and treatments is known as medical records. The health professionals were contributing to record the patient’s care. The responsibility in managing daily records that produced by each of department is by the Medical Records Department. It is a department under clinical support services with activities including managing of patient records, patient information production, management of medical reports, and hospital statistics. This article aims to discuss the challenge associated with managing medical records in the organization and how to handle and manage it with the records management as a tool to mitigate risk. Therefore, it is likely to prompt further research by addressing existing gaps towards improving service delivery that can contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of records management and archives generally.  

Author(s):  
Ngoako Solomon Marutha

This chapter investigates the extent to which healthcare facilities may cooperate to collaborate with an intention to share management of and access to patients' medical histories for quality healthcare service across their facilities. This study used a literature review, the author's experience, and an observational study in the healthcare institutions to support and recommend his view of medical records management and access collaboration. The study discovered that there is still a lack of collaborative access and management of medical records in healthcare institutions. This may affect the healthcare service negatively and the health of the patients directly. The study recommended a collaborative framework that healthcare institutions may apply, whether national, continental or international, to ensure that the medical or health history of patients is always accessible to healthcare practitioners wherever the patients find themselves seeking healthcare service anywhere and at any time.


2006 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 101-128
Author(s):  
Barbara Arciszewska

As we continue to probe the boundaries of architectural history and to seek new approaches to the complex legacy of the past, we have to reassess the body of knowledge produced thus far, exposing its often-hidden agendas in order to be aware of our own engagement with today’s ideologies. The architectural history of Central Europe, although usually marginalized, serves as a particularly instructive field in which to study the mutability of ideological positions and their impact on interpretation. Scholarship on the Wilanów Palace near Warsaw (c. 1677–96) (Figs 1 and 2) offers some of the most interesting examples of architectural history’s appropriations, oversights and extraordinary intellectual constructions devised solely in order to claim a relationship with the glorious past, or to sever ties with certain aspects of it, depending upon the contemporary ideological agendas. This material demonstrates how a single building has been used over the years to express diverse concepts of national identity, either by subjecting that building to certain physical modifications, or by making it serve as a point of departure for narratives that emphasize different characteristics of precisely the same physical fabric. The vocabulary of classical architecture employed in Wilanów was particularly well suited to such cultural practices. Classicism – the paradigmatic architectural language, positioned at the nexus of the indigenous and the foreign – has traditionally been associated with discourses of national identity. It was a universal idiom of authority, easily reflecting diverse (or even conflicting) social agendas, its visual vocabulary lending itself to a succession of new meanings, in line with shifting expectations and ideological priorities. In Wilanów the classical and the universal were continually redefined in an attempt to express in visual form the national and the particular.


2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelly Mwale ◽  
Joseph Chita

The strides to historicise Pentecostalism in Zambia have attempted to account for the growth of Pentecostal and charismatic churches without delving into the prominent features of Pentecostalism that have been popularised over time. One such characteristic is the “spiritual voice” that has been associated with the Pentecostal “Men of God” (clergy) in contemporary Zambia. Hence, this article explores the use of the voice as the power of articulation, understood as a spiritual vocal gift, as an expression of spiritual identity among the “Men of God” using the identity theory as a lens in Zambian Pentecostal church history. This is deemed significant not only for contributing to the body of knowledge but also to underscore the neglected attribute of Pentecostal influence on Zambia’s religious landscape. An interpretivist case study was employed in which raw data (video of sermons and pastoral ministries) and documents were analysed and interpreted. It was established that these “Men of God” perceived “broken vocal cords” as spiritual vocal gifts. As such, the voice not only evoked the power of articulation to communicate the spiritual emotions, but was also used to appeal, attract, and satisfy congregants (religious marketing) through assuming a ministerial “identity.” The article argues that the history of Pentecostalism in Zambia could not be detached from the romanticisation of the voice as a symbol of spirituality, and an imprint of identity on the “Men of God.”


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Wahyu Wijaya Widiyanto ◽  
Sri Wulandari ◽  
Artika Fristi Firnawati

In the activities of Posyandu Kutilang, Sukowiyono Village, Kec. Padas, Kabupaten Ngawi, a health check was carried out by a health center health worker, but there was no form of a toddler's medical record that could be used to document the results of a health examination. The target of this community service activity is the Posyandu Kutilang posyandu participants. Guidance and consultation was carried out by Lecturers and Students of the Department of Medical Records and Health Information at the Indonusa Polytechnic Surakarta when accompanying cadres of Posyandu Kutilang, Sukowiyono Village, Kec. Padas, Ngawi Regency in documenting the health history of toddler participants. The assistance provided includes how to fill out medical record forms for toddlers, what items must be filled in, and how to manage forms. Health checks are only recorded in the agenda book for elderly examinations belonging to the Mobile Puskesmas, so that the participants of Posyandu Kutilang, Sukowiyono Village, Kec. Padas, Kabupaten Ngawi cannot monitor the results of monthly health checks. Results of Assistance in Making Form Design and Recording Medical Records for Toddlers at Posyandu Kutilang, in the hall of Posyandu Kutilang, Sukowiyono Village, Kec. Padas, Ngawi Regency was attended by 11 people. Activities started according to the agreed schedule. The training participants participated in the activity enthusiastically because they felt that this activity had a role in administrative order through the implementation of recording in the form / resume of toddler medical records.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 899-902
Author(s):  
William M. Wallace

The investigative work of James L. Gamble found its instigation in the accentuated peculiarities of disease in infants and children, but as much as any other research in the field of pediatrics, his contributions have been universally applicable to all areas of medicine. The enormous and fruitful body of knowledge of water and electrolyte metabolism now at hand had much of its origin and a considerable segment of its basic foundation arise from the pioneer work of a small group of American pediatricians. Not only were their investigations of great value as pure contributions to the natural sciences, but their work has had an enormous practical application. In a review in 1950 by Darrow and Pratt1 it is stated: "Probably the proper use of water and electrolyte solutions is responsible for saving more lives of seriously ill patients than is the use of any other group of substances." Dr. Gamble was the last survivor of this small group of originators of basic concept upon which so much has been constructed. As a sketch of Gamble's life is available elsewhere,2 it seems more pertinent in this place to undertake a résumé of the history of the period of remarkable scientific achievement in which Gamble played so great a role. The study of the body fluids had its inception in efforts to understand and treat the dysenteric diseases. During the Nineteenth Century a few physicians studied the effects of abnormal losses of intestinal fluids, drew surprisingly correct conclusions and even assayed, with success, treatment with parenteral fluids.


Author(s):  
Simangele D Mavundla ◽  
Ann Strode ◽  
Dumsani Christopher Dlamini

Women's subordination is not new in the world. As society became human rights conscious, many countries started abrogating or scrapping discriminatory laws and attitudes towards women, in particular married women. However, it has taken Eswatini more than 100 years to deal with the fact that the common law principle of marital power discriminates against women. This paper traces the reception of marital power into the legal framework of Eswatini and how advocacy groups on women's rights and freedoms have opposed women's subordination, fortified by research. This paper presents a desktop review of selected literature and case laws touching on women's emancipation in Eswatini. This research work is significant in that it adds to the body of knowledge by recording the origins of women's subjection to marital power and their eventual emancipation in the landmark case of Sacolo v Sacolo (1403/2016) [2019] SZHC 166 (30 August 2019).


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Joan Alkema

This dissertation was researched in two main parts. The first enquiry was to establish whether the Afrikaner women practised any form of craft during their time of interment in the Anglo-Boer War concentration camps, during 1899-1902. The second part explores the appropriation of craft within the Post-Modern context by five South African artists. During this research into the craft practises of Afrikaner women in the concentration camps, I discovered that this particular issue has not been satisfactorily documented. The reasons for this are directly connected to the patriarchal system of the Calvinist Afrikaner. The impact which this system had on the craft practices of Afrikaner women and the lack of documentation thereof, are discussed. The paucity of information on Afrikaner women‟s history led to primary research where I gained the information I needed from the descendents of interned women. The findings of this research includes various forms of needlecraft such as embroidery, quilting, crocheting, and dress and bonnet making. Amongst the artefacts found were two ceramic dogs made in the camp. Various forms of tin and wire artefacts were also found. The contribution to the impoverished Afrikaner women by Hobhouse, the South African Agricultural Association and the South African Women‟s Federation is explained in relation to this dissertation. The freedom that Post-Modern thought created amongst artists enabled them to explore exciting ways of executing their art. The five South African artists whose work I chose to explore are Billy Zangewa, Sue Pam-Grant, Gina Waldman, Antionette Murdoch and Nirmi Ziegler. Their art practices are varied but the common denominator is the incorporation of various forms of traditional feminine craft into their work. They subvert the patriarchal order, draw attention to land issues, explore women‟s fragility and raise awareness concerning the abuse of the environment. I conducted an interview with Ziegler and relied on written documentation for the research concerning the other artists. I also made use of my own analysis and instinct as a woman and mother to interpret some works. As an Afrikaner woman I execute my work by using traditional feminine craft and specific motives found during my research. I deliver commentary on the lack of vi documentation of all of Afrikaner women‟s history. I use myself as an example of an Afrikaner woman and document my own history within the greater Afrikaner history which is contained and embedded within the history of South Africa. My research into and documentation of the craft practises of Afrikaner women during and directly after the Anglo-Boer War adds to the body of knowledge concerning the history of Afrikaner women. The same applies to the work of the five artists I explored. The diversity of material, concept and execution of their work will add some knowledge to the existing body of knowledge about their work, but more so to the documentation of women's history.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Tominanto Tominanto ◽  
Tria Puspita Sari

The authority and obligations of midwife practices in Indonesia are regulated in the Decree of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia No.900 / Menkes / SK / VII / 2002 concerning Registration and Practice of Midwives. Delivery assistance allowed by midwives are normal and emergency deliveries, and basic health services only deal with minor cases that are within their capabilities. Implementation of midwife practice services found many problems regarding the management of medical records of pregnant women that have not been optimal, including: incomplete medical records, difficulties in searching for medical record data, less synchronous data, recording and reporting of basic health services that are often too late. This can result in a decrease in the quality of health services for pregnant mother patients until delivery. An alternative solution to this problem is to develop an electronic medical record application for pregnant women that can present a complete and accurate history of the examination and development of the health of pregnant women so as to improve the health services of pregnant women and facilitate the reporting process to related parties. The method of developing an electronic medical record application for pregnant women uses the waterfall method with stages of development: system requirements analysis, system design, implementation and system testing. The programming language used by PHP and MySQL databases. This application program consists of 1) data input for pregnant women, 2) input for examining pregnant women, 3) input medical treatment, and 4) report on examination results. The test results show that this application can store and present information about the health history of pregnant women with a valid so that it can be used as an alternative service for medical records of pregnant women that is more optimal.


Author(s):  
Alessandra Loureiro Morales dos Santos ◽  
Pedro Enrique Navas-Suarez ◽  
Juliana Guerra ◽  
Ticiana Brasil Ervedosa ◽  
Luana Rivas ◽  
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Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease caused by the ubiquitous coccidia Toxoplasma gondii. Rodents play an important role in maintaining its life cycle, as they are one of the main diet sources for felids (wild and domestic), the unique definitive hosts. However, reports of toxoplasmosis in porcupines (Rodentia Order) are uncommon, with gaps concerning its pathophysiology. South America is the continent with the greatest genetic diversity of rodents and T. gondii. A free-ranging hairy dwarf porcupine was admitted to a wildlife rescue center with a history of trauma. During rehabilitation, the animal presented neurological symptoms (sporadic episodes of hind limbs paresis) and died five months later. The main findings during necropsy were brain congestion and severe incisor overgrowth associated with maxillary perforation. The histopathological exam showed moderate encephalitis, with variable-sized round cysts, positive for PAS stain and immunohistochemistry for T. gondii. Additionally, two cysts were observed in the medulla of the adrenal gland. Molecular techniques were performed to characterize the parasite load by qPCR (Cq=30) and the genotype by PCR-RFLP with 11 markers, which revealed a new genotype. This case adds to the body of knowledge in comparative pathology of Neotropical Rodentia and reports a new genotype circulating in South America.


2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-231
Author(s):  
Doris Bergen

Abstract This chapter traces the history of Paul McGhee’s theoretical views, research methods, and body of writing focused on children’s humor development. It describes the state of such research before he became involved, the decision-making process that led him to focus on this area of knowledge, his initial research paradigms and later research methodology, his extensive writings on humor development, and the theoretical ideas about children’s humor development that he proposed, drawing on Piagetian theory. It also briefly discusses his later work in broader fields of humor development. The chapter briefly describes the ways that the body of knowledge he provided and his emphasis on the importance of early humor development have been influential for many subsequent humor development researchers, including that of the author. It also recognizes the playfulness that Paul McGhee has brought to both his scholarly and advocacy work, which provides a model for future researchers in the field of children’s humor development.


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