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- 1981-1985 (Creation)
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From November 1982 to May 1985 the Economic and Social Research Council funded a study by Dr M P Dent of Staffordshire University School of Humanities and Social Sciences entitled 'Doctors and the Development of Hospital Computer Systems: a case study'. The study was conducted at an unnamed small acute hospital in Birmingham, and assessed the impact of a computer-based medical records system on the clinical work processes within an outpatient clinic, the decision-making processes involved, and the responses of the doctors to the computer system.
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GB 0120 GC/248 1981-1985 Collection (fonds) 1 box Dent , Michael P , fl 1982-1985 , academic
From November 1982 to May 1985 the Economic and Social Research Council funded a study by Dr M P Dent of Staffordshire University School of Humanities and Social Sciences entitled 'Doctors and the Development of Hospital Computer Systems: a case study'. The study was conducted at an unnamed small acute hospital in Birmingham, and assessed the impact of a computer-based medical records system on the clinical work processes within an outpatient clinic, the decision-making processes involved, and the responses of the doctors to the computer system.
These records were deposited with the Wellcome Library by by Dr M P Dent via the Economic and Social Research Council Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre in March 1999 (Acc No 793).
The study was based on meetings and taped interviews with consultants, junior doctors and nursing staff, plus documentary evidence. The latter is not included in the records given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, nor (with one exception) are the records of meetings, but the taped interviews have been deposited in full. The interviewees give pseudonyms rather than their actual names.
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, by prior appointment with the Archivist after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. They may be consulted solely for research purposes subject to the depositor being advised of use of the materials.
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Copyright in the records is retained by the depositor initially, to be transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre three years after deposit (i.e. 24 March 2002). Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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Catalogued by Helen Wakely, CMAC, Wellcome Library, April 1999. Hard-copy catalogue available in Wellcome Library.
Held by Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library: Papers of Professor T R Elliott (GC/42) on clinical record keeping in World War I. See Sources Leaflet no 10 'Hospitals' and Sources Leaflet no 24 'Audio Tapes'
Dent, M, Professions, information technology and management in hospitals (Aldershot: Avebury, c.1996).
Description compiled by Helen Wakely. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. December 2000 Archive automation Clinical medicine Computer applications Data processing Dent , Michael P , fl 1982-1985 , academic Field work Health services Hospitals Interviews Magnetic tape recordings Medical institutions Medical personnel Medical profession Medical sciences Paramedical personnel Patients Personnel Physicians Recordings Records management Research work Social sciences Social welfare Sound recordings Surgery People by occupation People
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These records were deposited with the Wellcome Library by by Dr M P Dent via the Economic and Social Research Council Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre in March 1999 (Acc No 793).
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The study was based on meetings and taped interviews with consultants, junior doctors and nursing staff, plus documentary evidence. The latter is not included in the records given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, nor (with one exception) are the records of meetings, but the taped interviews have been deposited in full. The interviewees give pseudonyms rather than their actual names.
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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, by prior appointment with the Archivist after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. They may be consulted solely for research purposes subject to the depositor being advised of use of the materials.
Conditions governing reproduction
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Copyright in the records is retained by the depositor initially, to be transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre three years after deposit (i.e. 24 March 2002). Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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Held by Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library: Papers of Professor T R Elliott (GC/42) on clinical record keeping in World War I. See Sources Leaflet no 10 'Hospitals' and Sources Leaflet no 24 'Audio Tapes'
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Catalogued by Helen Wakely, CMAC, Wellcome Library, April 1999. Hard-copy catalogue available in Wellcome Library.
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- Computer applications » Archive automation
- Medical sciences » Clinical medicine
- Computer applications
- Data processing
- Research work » Field work
- Health services
- Health services » Hospitals
- Research work » Field work » Interviews
- Recordings » Sound recordings » Magnetic tape recordings
- Medical profession » Medical personnel
- Medical profession
- Medical sciences
- Medical profession » Medical personnel » Paramedical personnel
- Health services » Patients
- Personnel
- Medical profession » Medical personnel » Physicians
- Recordings
- Records management
- Research work
- Social sciences
- Social welfare
- Recordings » Sound recordings
- Medical sciences » Surgery
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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- English