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  • Title: Pain clinic EPR: requirements determination & configuration.
    Author: Meijer SL, Ten Hoopen AJ, Van Der Maas AA, Kamphuis HC.
    Journal: Stud Health Technol Inform; 2002; 93():111-8. PubMed ID: 15058422.
    Abstract:
    UNLABELLED: The focus of this study was to determine requirements for a general pain EPR (electronic patient record), design this EPR and develop a prototype for demo purposes in pain clinics in The Netherlands. The specifications for this EPR were derived from the 'Nijmegen Classification of Pain', analysis of patient paper records and in-depth interviews with six anaesthesiologists, three physiotherapists and two psychologists. For development a generic configuration tool was used. The actual EPR consisted of five components (two for the anaesthesiologists, one for the physiotherapist, one for the psychologist and one for the whole team). The five components comprised of numerous dialogues. The medical care process directed these dialogues. CONCLUSIONS: The different organisational settings and the variability in provided patient care compromised the development of an EPR for all pain clinics. Defining the granularity of the dialogues was influenced mainly by the factors mentioned previously. However, most respondents agreed on the importance of the following functional demands: registration speed, security, flexibility and supporting of communication between the care providers.
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