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1Family Practice Residency, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033.
Abstract:
A programmable database may be implemented on a personal computer to manage the educational and clinical information needs of a family practice residency. Such a system can usefully and efficiently be based on the existing clinical encounter form. Data entry for a practice of 7500 patients with 20,000 visits per year requires little computer expertise and only 1 hour per day of clerical data entry time. The cost of such a system can be reduced to as low as $2500. A flexible, programmable database, rather than a commercial practice management system, is recommended as more efficient in accommodating continued development of strategies to meet the educational and clinical data needs in the family practice residency setting.
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