Creating a Collaborative Platform for the Development of Community Interventions to Prevent Non-Communicable Diseases.

Chronic diseases, also known as non-communicable diseases (NCD) are one of the most important public health problems of our time. Many of these diseases can be reduced by achieving healthy lifestyles. Community interventions are very useful in reducing these types of diseases since they have a direct impact over daily conditions and are adjustable to the complex situations that they carry.

Impact of the implementation of electronic health records on the quality of discharge summaries and on the coding of hospitalization episodes.

Objective: To determine whether the implementation and use of the electronic health records (EHR) modifies the quality, readability and/or the length of the discharge summaries (DS) and the average number of coded diagnosis and procedures per hospitalization episode.

Design: A pre-post-intervention descriptive study conducted between 2010 and 2014.

Setting: The 'Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre' (H12O) of Madrid (Spain).