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9. Quality of Record Keeping by Dental Interns working in Dental Out- Patient Department of a Dental Hospital of Karachi

Shanila Faisal1, Abdul Qadir2, Aqeel Ahmed Shaikh3, Muhammad Adnan Kanpurwala2, Rabia Arshad4 and Hina Riaz1

ABSTRACT

Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the record keeping done by the dental interns working in the outpatient department of a teaching dental hospital of Karachi.

Study Design: Cross sectional study 

Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi.February to September 2016.

Materials and Methods: was done on the dental records of patient’s history took by dental interns during their house job from the patients visiting the dental outpatient department for dental care. 300 patients dental record were examined using the modified CRABEL score to assess the quality of data. 

Results: The Mean (SD) CRABEL Score was 94.62% (9.4) with minimum score of 30% and a maximum score of 100%. A total of 227 (76%) records out of 300 had a CRABEL score of 95% or above whereas 26 (8.7%) recording scored 80% or below. The most frequently missing readings were Intern signature (22.3%), department name (14.3%), supervisor signature (11.7%) and history of presenting complain (11.3%). Male interns were found to be significantly (P-value=0.02) more reluctant in missing the department name as compare to their female colleague.  Conclusion: The quality of record keeping among dental interns in a teaching dental hospital of Karachi is above average in relation to modified CRABEL score. It is important to take academic measures as per need to improve the quality of record keeping.

Key Words: Dental Record, Students, CRABEL Score

Citation of article: Faisal S, Qadir A, Shaikh AA, Kanpurwala MA, Arshad R, Riaz H. Quality of Record

Keeping by Dental Interns working in Dental Out-Patient Department of a Dental Hospital of Karachi. Med


Forum 2017;28(1):35-38.