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The traditional handwritten documentation can by no means meet the continuously increasing demands in modern intensive care. In a clinical evaluation a unix-based CIS was tested on a major German surgical intensive care unit (SICU). After a short training period most of the documentation work could be done with the CIS. Time savings resulted from automatic calculations of intake/output summaries and hemodynamics, and from on-line data transfer from bedside devices. The 100% legibility of the computer documentation, its consistent structure and terminology, and its comprehensiveness provided for a major improvement in quality. Thus, in a first clinical testing in a German SICU the replacement of the handwritten record with a unixbased CIS was successful and advantageous.
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Imhoff, M. (1993). One Year Experience with a Unix-Based Clinical Information System (CIS) on an SICU. In: Lenz, K., Metnitz, P.G.H. (eds) Patient Data Management in Intensive Care. Intensivmedizinisches Seminar, vol 6. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9320-4_8
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