Objective To systematically review measures of data quality in electronic patient records
(EPRs) in primary care. Design Systematic review of English language publications, 1980 …

Objective: To develop methods of measuring the validity and utility of electronic patient
records in general practice. Design: A survey of the main functional areas of a practice and …

Little is known about which patients miss appointments or why they do so. Using routinely
collected data from four practices, we aimed to determine whether patients who missed …

Background. Opportunities exist to develop an advanced nursing role in general practice
and there is growing evidence that appropriately trained nurses can reduce cost and GP …

Objective It is generally accepted that greater use could be made of community pharmacy-
based interventions. Diabetes care has been proposed as an area for enhanced community …

Objectives Until this point there was no national core competency framework for clinical
informatics in the UK. We report on the final two iterations of work carried out in the formation …

Abstract Background The United Kingdom's Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) embarked
on the creation of a core competency framework in response to the need to provide support …

Many people use online applications to communicate with friends, book travel and hotels,
order goods, organise diaries and conduct their affairs. It is therefore reasonable that …

Background There is a wealth of evidence regarding the detrimental impact of excessive
alcohol consumption. In older populations excessive alcohol consumption is associated with …

Models of the clinical encounter have been developed in general practice over the last 50
years. More recently, there has been an emphasis on the use of probabilistic research …