Electronic Discharge summary completion: assessing the field completion rate at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital as a surrogate marker of end user acceptance

Researcher: Palesa Khoza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: TBA

This study reviewed 18128 discharge records issued in the department of surgery at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and examined 28 fields to assess the field completion rate of electronic discharge summaries.  To evaluate the quality of information in electronic discharge summaries, a word count of three clinically significant fields was conducted.