[Experience and results in the evaluation of documentation-oriented medical records in the German Democratic...

At the instance of the chronic liver diseases (Nr. 571 and 573 IKK) is shown in form of a model which high value of information the process of the stored data of the headline of a medical record suited for documentation. Thus informations concerning the clinical morbidity/mortality, analyses according to age and sex, residence and admitting institution, comparison of admission, treatment and post-mortem diagnoses, ascertainment of the diagnosis and finally economic data may be got. From this result the epidemiological conclusions and the statements for analyses of factors.