Importance of medical documentation in terms of health institutions and a case study: The attitude of public and private hospital employees toward medical recording

Many different medical documents are being used at different levels and areas in health institutions. Of course, the vital value of the health services offered by institutions requires effective use and regular management of the medical documentation processes. In addition to the importance of medical documents in terms of patients, they also have a great precaution in terms of staffs, institutions, forensics, public health and education. In this study; it is aimed to reveal the attitudes of physicians and other executive staffs toward the medical documentation processes, who are working in public and private hospitals in the Bakırköy region of Istanbul province. For this purpose, a questionnaire of consisting 34 questions was applied to 450 staffs. The obtained data is analyzed using the "SPSS for Windows 22.00" application. The t-test and ANOVA test were utilized for analyzes of demographic variables. As a result of the analyzes; we found that the independent variables containing staffs demographich characteristics was having varied impact on their attitudes toward the three dependent variables; (i) "Attitude toward Form Medical Record System", (ii) "Attitudes towards Electronic Medical Record System" and (iii)"Attitude towards Medical Record System in Accuracy and Quality of Accreditation". In particular, it has been found that those who are employed as medical secretaries in the profession group of private hospital employees, and those staffs who work with minimum salary levels showed higher level of scores in terms of perception level than others in all dimensions. Keywords : Medical Record, Electronic Medical Record, Quality, Accreditation