1. A Hospital Medical Record Quality Scoring Tool (MeReQ): Development, Validation, and Results of a Pilot Study
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Alessandra Torsello, Mariarosaria Aromatario, Matteo Scopetti, Lavinia Bianco, Stefania Oliva, Stefano D’Errico, and Christian Napoli
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hospital medical record quality ,clinical risk management ,quality index ,quality score ,patient safety ,Medicine - Abstract
Hospital medical records are valuable and cost-effective documents for assessing the quality of healthcare provided to patients by a healthcare facility during hospitalization. However, there is a lack of internationally validated tools that measure the quality of the whole hospital medical record in terms of both form and content. In this study, we developed and validated a tool, named MeReQ (medical record quality) tool, which quantifies the quality of the hospital medical record and enables statistical modeling using the data obtained. The tool was applied to evaluate a sample of hospital individual patient medical records from a secondary referral hospital and to identify the departments that require quality improvement interventions and the effects of improvement actions already implemented.
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- 2024
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