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Informing the consultant psychiatrist – the problems of communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

I. W. Kemp
I. W. Kemp*
Affiliation:
Common Services Agency, Information Services Division, Scottish Health Service, Edinburgh
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1Address for correspondence: Dr I. W. Kemp, Common Services Agency, Information Services Division, Scottish Health Service, Trinity Park House, South Trinity Road, Edinburgh EH5 3SQ.
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Synopsis

There is considerable difficulty in providing clinicians with statistics relating to their work which are both relevant in content and suitable in style. As a contribution towards the solution of the problem for psychiatrists, a new type of statistical feedback, the Hospital/National Comparison Tables, has been produced in Scotland. In these tables the work of individual hospitals is compared with the work of all other hospitals of the same type. These are critically examined, together with examples of analyses showing the uses to which the data can be put.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 1979 , pp. 365 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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