@ARTICLE{Rangraz Geddi, author = {Rangraz Geddi, F and Farzandipour, M and Mousavi, SGh and }, title = {Studying The rate of Medical Records Use in Kashan Hospitals }, volume = {8}, number = {21}, abstract ={Methods: This descriptive - cross sectional study was done in 2003-2004 in shahid Beheshti, Shabih khani , Naghavi , Akhavan and Matini hospithals . All needed information based on: training , research, administrative , medical and legal uses was collected using a checklist. The frequency and percentage of use were calculated and tested via chi-square test to determine the differences between types of use and hospitals. Findings: The total number of Medical record use was 7590 . The highest research use was 32.8% , ie. 76% of the whole records and the highest use of the records was related to surgical records, 42.06% . Statistical tests indicated significant differences between the interval of patient admission & type of use and also between hospitals and type of use (P }, URL = {http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-142-en.html}, eprint = {http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-142-en.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Health Administration}, doi = {}, year = {2005} }