The importance of the hospital in Canadian society is undisputed. Despite this, the hospital has traditionally received relatively little attention from the archival community. It is only now becoming apparent to both hospital administrators and archivists that this situation must change if the valuable records contained in hospitals are to be preserved. This thesis examines the archival preservation of hospital records, concluding that their retention is of great benefit to those operating the institution as well as the rest of society and that this preservation can be effectively carried out if certain basic considerations are borne in mind. Before archival operations are established in a hospital, it is necessary to investigate various aspects of the institution and its record keeping practices. It is only when the nature and uses of these records are understood that effective programmes can be implemented. A hospital archives will not achieve its full potential unless it is established on a sound foundation with adequate policy and resources. Similarly, the records contained therein must be properly appraised to ensure all the valuable material is retained and protected from improper access. Through an investigation of these and related issues, the viability of hospital archives will be confirmed. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate

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Magister Public Health - MPH / The availability of information on profile and trends of cancer in South African populations is important for the development of appropriate cancer control strategies, as well as monitoring the efficacy of the existing cancer control programmes. Yet, generally there is a scarcity of systematically analysed reports on hospital cancer cases in South Africa, even for urban hospitals. The aim of this study was to describe the cancer profile of patients diagnosed at Frere Hospital‟s Oncology and Radiation Department and estimate the incidence of cancer among Buffalo City (BFC) urban area residents, for the 19-year period 01 January 1991 to 31 December 2009 based on the clinical administrative data system maintained by the department. The study was a descriptive case series study based on a retrospective review of Frere Hospital‟s Oncology and Radiation Department patient records from 1991 to 2009. Permission was obtained to retrieve records of cancer cases for the 19-year period from the database. Data were extracted from the customized administrative system to an excel spread sheet. Variables for each case retrieved included: socio-demographic details; age at diagnosis, sex, race, place of residence and medical aid information, tumor information; site and date of diagnosis. Data cleaning incorporated techniques such as checking of completeness and accuracy of patient information details. Dates were formatted into month-day-year sequence and checked so that the date of birth precedes the date of diagnosis of the patient and the date last seen. Age less than zero and greater than ninety nine was replaced as missing. Geographical areas were coded according to the South African Population Census. Duplicates and cases with missing diagnosis were excluded.

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This thesis will examine the manual hospital document retrieval system and electronic document scanning system. From this examination, requirements will be listed for the Administrative Reporting for the Hospital Document Scanning System which will provide better service and reliability than the previous systems. To assure that the requirements can be met, this will be developed into a working system which is named as the Administrative Reporting for the Hospital Document Scanning System(ARHDSS). / Department of Computer Science

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1974.

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1974.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-01-26T13:21:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-08-13Bitstream added on 2015-01-26T13:30:42Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000801584.pdf: 2513021 bytes, checksum: ac468eadf03becef0286253e3a703a69 (MD5) / A relevância dos prontuários dos pacientes, sua produção e guarda trazem preocupações em como mantê-los organizados e acessíveis em um arquivo. Considerando os benefícios resultantes do processo de conservação preventiva aplicado em arquivos, abordamos e discutimos os conceitos e princípios capazes de orientar e conscientizar os usuários e responsáveis pelo acervo. Das vantagens desse processo, destacamos que o levantamento da legislação e das rotinas dessa produção documental se faz necessário, pois para o estudo da aplicabilidade da conservação preventiva, é necessário compreender todo o fluxo documental do setor. O problema focado refere-se aos prontuários dos pacientes do Centro de Estudos da Educação e Saúde (CEES) da UNESP/Campus de Marília. A análise de dificuldades na busca pela informação desejada, a melhor adequação na guarda e os processos de acesso a esses documentos foram norteadores para avaliar as contribuições da conservação preventiva. Dessa forma, discutimos sobre a produção documental e apresentamos as definições a respeito da conservação documental, fornecendo maior conhecimento acerca deste processo, e, assim, destacamos as melhorias na guarda e acesso à documentação. / The relevance of the records of patients, their production and guard bring concerns on how to keep them organized and accessible in archive. Considering the benefits of preventive conservation process applied to files, we cover and discuss the concepts and principles that can guide and educate users and responsible for collection. The advantages of this process, we emphasize that the lifting of the legislation and of the routines in this documentary production is necessary, because for the study of the applicability of preventive conservation, it is necessary to understand the whole flow of the documentary sector. The problem focused refers to the records of patients of the Center for the Study of Education and Health (CEES) at UNESP/Campus Marilia. The analysis of difficulties in search of the desired information, to better match the guard and the processes of access to these documents were guiding to assess the contributions of preventive conservation. Thus, we discussed about the production of documents and we present the definitions about the conservation of documents, providing greater knowledge about this process, and, so, we highlight the improvements in the guard and access to documentation.

Orientador: Telma Campanha de Carvalho Madio / Banca: Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita / Banca: Rosane Suely Alvares Lunardelli / Resumo: A relevância dos prontuários dos pacientes, sua produção e guarda trazem preocupações em como mantê-los organizados e acessíveis em um arquivo. Considerando os benefícios resultantes do processo de conservação preventiva aplicado em arquivos, abordamos e discutimos os conceitos e princípios capazes de orientar e conscientizar os usuários e responsáveis pelo acervo. Das vantagens desse processo, destacamos que o levantamento da legislação e das rotinas dessa produção documental se faz necessário, pois para o estudo da aplicabilidade da conservação preventiva, é necessário compreender todo o fluxo documental do setor. O problema focado refere-se aos prontuários dos pacientes do Centro de Estudos da Educação e Saúde (CEES) da UNESP/Campus de Marília. A análise de dificuldades na busca pela informação desejada, a melhor adequação na guarda e os processos de acesso a esses documentos foram norteadores para avaliar as contribuições da conservação preventiva. Dessa forma, discutimos sobre a produção documental e apresentamos as definições a respeito da conservação documental, fornecendo maior conhecimento acerca deste processo, e, assim, destacamos as melhorias na guarda e acesso à documentação. / Abstract: The relevance of the records of patients, their production and guard bring concerns on how to keep them organized and accessible in archive. Considering the benefits of preventive conservation process applied to files, we cover and discuss the concepts and principles that can guide and educate users and responsible for collection. The advantages of this process, we emphasize that the lifting of the legislation and of the routines in this documentary production is necessary, because for the study of the applicability of preventive conservation, it is necessary to understand the whole flow of the documentary sector. The problem focused refers to the records of patients of the Center for the Study of Education and Health (CEES) at UNESP/Campus Marilia. The analysis of difficulties in search of the desired information, to better match the guard and the processes of access to these documents were guiding to assess the contributions of preventive conservation. Thus, we discussed about the production of documents and we present the definitions about the conservation of documents, providing greater knowledge about this process, and, so, we highlight the improvements in the guard and access to documentation. / Mestre

"It was the purpose of this study to examine the case records of sixty-six patients referred for history resources to the Social Service Department at the Florida State Hospital, from July 1, 1958 through June 30, 1959"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: James H. Williams, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.