CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Illegible handwriting in medical records — Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Key
- rodriguezvera2002illegible-records
- Authors
- Rodríguez-Vera, F. Javier; Marín, Y.; Sánchez, A.; Borrachero, C.; Pujol, E.
- Issued
- 2002-11
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 545-546
Raw CSL JSON
{
"DOI": "10.1177/014107680209501105",
"URL": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1279250/",
"page": "545-546",
"type": "article-journal",
"issue": "11",
"title": "Illegible handwriting in medical records",
"author": [
{
"given": "F. Javier",
"family": "Rodríguez-Vera"
},
{
"given": "Y.",
"family": "Marín"
},
{
"given": "A.",
"family": "Sánchez"
},
{
"given": "C.",
"family": "Borrachero"
},
{
"given": "E.",
"family": "Pujol"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2002,
11
]
]
},
"volume": "95",
"container-title": "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine"
}
Claims
-
Of 117 case notes sampled at a Spanish general hospital, 18 (15%) were so illegible that their meaning was unclear, with surgical departments faring worse than medical departments.
"117 case notes were examined and 18 (15%) were scored 1 or 2—i.e. they were so illegible that the meaning was unclear."
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