TY - JOUR T1 - Studying The rate of Medical Records Use in Kashan Hospitals TT - بررسی میزان استفاده از پرونده های پزشکی بیماران در بیمارستان های شهرستان کاشان، 1382 JF - jha JO - jha VL - 8 IS - 21 UR - http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-142-en.html Y1 - 2005 SP - 88 EP - 94 KW - Medical records - Training use- research use - legal use - administrative use- financial use - Retention time-. N2 - 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 M3 ER -