Do medical admission pro formas -improve the completeness of documentation? A multisite observational study.

There is little evidence as to whether clerking pro formas are more or less effective than continuation sheets for the acute medical admission clerking process. This two site audit aimed to assess the effect of introducing clerking pro formas on the completeness of documentation in 32 areas. Data were collected at two sites both pre- and post-introduction of two different clerking pro formas, and a two-tailed z-test used to assess the significance in changes in documentation at each individual site and combined across both sites.