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The comprehensive care of patients with traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCI) necessitates, among other things, a structured, life-long follow up. The high consumption of medical care in chronic SCI patients, often a result of diseases affecting many different organ systems, soon causes the cumulated medical documentation to be extensive and therefore hard to survey. The possibilities for rational patient management, adequate quality assurance, and clinical research may improve considerably by computerisation of medical records. A computerised medical records system for SCI has recently been developed, using a semistructured medical record format for data input and a medical entity dictionary for facilitated data storage and retrieval. The principles for developing this computer-assisted follow up system are described.
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Levi, R., Hultling, C. & Westgren, N. A computer assisted follow up system for spinal cord injury patients. Spinal Cord 32, 736–742 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1994.119
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1994.119