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A Psychiatric Version of the New Aberdeen Medical Record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Keith J. B. Rix
Affiliation:
University of Manchester (now Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Leeds)
Betty McNally
Affiliation:
University Hospital of South Manchester
Margaret Johnson
Affiliation:
University Hospital of South Manchester
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When Wilson et al (1978) described ‘The new Aberdeen Medical Record,’ they stated: ‘The bulk and disarray of many hospital medical records make it impossible to review and retrieve information easily, hamper the proper care of patients and cause much time to be wasted … when papers accumulate chaotically in the folders much time is wasted in clumsy attempts to retrieve information; important facts about patients and their problems and drug treatment are obscured.’ The same problems apply to the records of psychiatric patients, and this paper describes the adaptation of the Aberdeen Medical Record for use in psychiatric units and hospitals.

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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1983

References

Wilson, L. A., Petrie, J. C., Dawson, A. A. & Marron, A. C. (1978) A new Aberdeen Medical Record. British Medical Journal, iii, 414–15.Google Scholar
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