clinical encounter

Any physical or virtual contact between a subject/patient and healthcare practitioner/researcher, during which an assessment or clinical activity is performed.

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Will the clinical encounter, family practice's signature concept, become truncated and distorted in the quest for cost-efficiency?

Family Practice and the Advancement of Medical Understanding: The First 50 Years

Topics include: the search for meaning in modern medicine, narrative in the clinical encounter, dementia in America, Tolstoy and the making of the inhuman, and treatment politics.

Illness in context

Documentation of the clinical encounter has undergone a gradual evolution.

Hybrid encounter documenting: blending templated and narrated note taking within one EMR offers caregivers multiple ways to document patient visits, swiftly and accurately

Taken together, the tools not only provide information during a clinical encounter, but, if used widely, the tools are likely to move evidence into practice faster as well, Dr.

Online tools offer physicians clinical decision support by computer, PDA

The cycle lists what a patient experiences from start to finish for a clinical encounter.

Myths and realities of electronic medical records: 9 vital functions combine to create comprehensive EMR. (Medical Records)

Such divergences may not surface in a later clinical encounter.

Commentary--Daily Experiences of Relationships and Illness: Reflecting on Our Focus

Into this complex field of misunderstanding comes Richard Zaner with Ethics and the Clinical Encounter.

Ethics and the Clinical Encounter

He has organized the material in a clinical encounter fashion, beginning with a discussion of general poisoning management and useful antidotes and later detailing specific management strategies and antidotes for separate types of poisonings and envenomings.

Color Atlas of Human Poisoning and Envenomation

Clinical encounter forms guide documentation and capture structured data to facilitate correct coding and outcomes reporting.

Comprehensive EHR suite

The American Health Security Act proposed by the Clinton Administration describes a national information infrastructure, including standardized data about diagnoses, procedures, and clinical outcomes that every provider would be obligated to collect after every clinical encounter.

The importance of data warehouses for physician executives

Patient reactions were measured with a questionnaire that the patients completed after the clinical encounter.

Patients' reactions to physician use of a computerized medical record system during clinical encounters