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Auditing nursing content in patient records.

A Ehrenberg1, M Ehnfors, B Smedby

  • 1Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. aeh@du.se

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
|June 25, 2002
PubMed
Summary

Auditing patient records requires more than just checking formal structure. Combining process comprehensiveness with knowledge-based review offers a more reliable assessment of nursing care quality.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Services Research
  • Nursing Informatics
  • Quality Improvement

Background:

  • Effective patient record audits are crucial for ensuring quality nursing care.
  • Existing audit methods vary in their focus and aims, potentially leading to incomplete assessments.
  • A comprehensive understanding of different auditing approaches is needed to improve patient record evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore various approaches for auditing patient records through a literature review.
  • To apply these identified approaches to a sample of nursing care records.
  • To analyze the consequences of applying different audit methods on record quality assessment.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted a literature review of 56 papers on nursing care recording and audits.

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  • Performed an audit on a stratified sample of 298 patient records from Swedish community health care and nursing homes.
  • Applied four distinct auditing approaches identified in the literature: formal structure, process comprehensiveness, knowledge-based, and concordance with actual care.

    • Main Results:

    • Identified four distinct approaches to patient record audits, each with different objectives.
    • The four approaches focused on formal structure, process comprehensiveness, knowledge base, and concordance with actual care.
    • Applying these methods revealed varying outcomes in assessing the quality of recorded nursing care.

    Conclusions:

    • Patient record audits should extend beyond evaluating formal structure to ensure comprehensive quality assessment.
    • The 'process comprehensiveness' approach, combined with a critical review of the knowledge base, provides a more complete and reliable evaluation of recorded nursing care quality.
    • Limiting audits to formal structure may create a superficial impression of high quality without reflecting actual care standards.