Homeless patients: designing a database for nursing documentation.

Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care

College of Nursing, UNC-Charlotte.

Published: December 1994

Care of the homeless in small out-patient clinic settings presents unique challenges in health care documentation. The transitory and infrequent episodic nature of client contact, as well as the inherent inefficiencies of the traditional paper chart, tend to minimize the collection of useful data for analyzing trends and patterns to identify and meet evolving health care needs.

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