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The Problem-Oriented Medical Record and Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Frederick Hayes-Roth
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
Richard Longabaugh
Affiliation:
Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94122, U.S.A.
Ralph Ryback
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178, U.S.A.

Extract

The psychiatric hospital can be viewed as a social system which is evolving slowly by attempting to improve. In order to systematically study and learn about itself the mental hospital and its care providers need continuous pertinent information. Yet, at present the psychiatric hospital is not organized in a way that readily allows isolation of problems or systematic learning from prior experience (8). In that sense, the hospital is a non-system which lacks an information system necessary for meaningful feedback to the decision-makers of the institution (7).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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