Compliance with regulations on recording inpatient obstetric medical records and its influencing factors at Tra Vinh obstetrics and pediatrics hospital in 2020
Background: Medical records are one of the important contents to ensure the monitoring, management of medical examination and treatment, storing and searching patient information, and scientific research. Objects and research methods: Cross descriptive research design with actual sample size of 255 HSBA. Results: The content of the general information section reached the lowest rate in the content of the administrative section of 83.9%. Other contents in this section have the rate of 90.9% - 99.8%. The average rate of general information is 92.9%. Contents of the medical history section, the proportion of satisfactory contents such as the reason for admission to the hospital (99.6%), the questioning part (96.3%) and the medical examination were quite high (97.8%), content of monitoring at the delivery chamber was only 73.7%. The average percentage of medical records meeting the requirements of the medical record part is 91.9%. Content inside medical records: The average rate is 91.1%. Conclusion: The medical records which have 85% to <100% of corrected items accounts for 98.1%. There should be specific instructions on how to record medical records at Tra Vinh Obstetrics and Pediatrics hospital Keywords: Medical record, completeness, timeliness