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Developmental History Collection on a Child Psychiatric Inpatient Service
Author(s) -
SCAHILL LAWRENCE,
SIPPLE BETH
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6171.1990.tb00449.x
Subject(s) - data collection , service (business) , sample (material) , multidisciplinary team , medicine , psychiatry , medical record , multidisciplinary approach , medical emergency , psychology , nursing , social science , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , economy , chromatography , sociology , economics , radiology
This retrospective study was the first step of a larger project aimed at constructing a data collection tool to be used by child psychiatric nurses on an acute psychiatric inpatient service. A sample of 41 records was reviewed by a single reviewer using explicit criteria to determine the quality of data currently being gathered. The sample was randomly selected from 180 records of children admitted to an acute child psychiatric inpatient service in a major teaching institution. Of the 41 records reviewed, 14 had little or no information concerning the child's developmental course, and in about 50% of the charts similar information was recorded by different team members. It was noted that this service is fairly new, and no assessment tool that reflects a consensus of the multidisciplinary team is currently in use. Without a systematic method of gathering data upon admission, data collection will continue to be inconsistent and incomplete.