Causes and effects of missing health records on patients and care providers in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Department: Health Information Management By: iamjahmeyou Project ID: 5621 Rating: (3.3) votes: 6Rate this project12345 Price:₦3000 Get the Complete MaterialAbstractThis project work examined the causes and effects of missing health records on patients and care providers in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. It also informed the health officers on the causes of missing in the hospital with its possible effects on the healthcare outcome and ways management of patient health records needed for decision making. Among the objectives is to highlight the effects of missing records on patient care. Furthermore, to determine the effects of missing records on patients waiting time, and to suggest ways/ measures of checking and preventing missing records. Many medical and allied literatures were reviewed to develop more facts for the project work. This research use descriptive survey to sample 1313 staff of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara State. Questionnaire is the instrument used to gather and analyze the data, 153 questionnaires were distributed out of which 130 were also retrieved. In conclusion, recommendations were made that adequate infrastructural facilities and equipment should be provided so as to ensure adequate safety of patients’ records, staff should be trained and retrained so as to enable easy adoption of better ways of retaining records without loss. And improvement of the monitoring of patients' records should be put in place. Keywords health, information, causes, missing, effects and management ...Preview Download Preview +Other Health Information Management project topics and materials you might be interested in»Analysis of filing system and consequences of misfiling»Evaluation of the problems and constraints facing health record keeping and professionals»Impact of health information management in healthcare delivery»Assessment of challenges of health information management practice in General Hospital Ilorin, Kwara State»Analysis of filing system and consequences of misfiling patients health records in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara state»A study into causes of misfiling among health information management professionals in health records department - case study of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara state»Evaluation of confidentiality of patient health records among hospital staff»Factors militating against effective documentation in health care delivery system in University of Benin Teaching Hospital Benin City, Edo state»Effect of lack of health information computerization in the primary health care system»Evaluation of patient appointment system - a case study of university of Ilorin teaching hospital»Causes and consequences of breach of confidentiality of patient health information in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos state»Impact of health statistics in the health care delivery system at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State»Impact of electronic medical records on patients waiting time in health care delivery system in Federal Medical Center, Asaba, Delta state»Evaluation of the importance of health information management in primary health care»Knowledge and perception of health information management professionals on electronic coding for quality clinical data in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara state