ABSTRACT
Anybody who is using a computerized system for recording any part of their patients' notes should be interested in finding out about the quality of the information they are recording. Once health care professionals know what quality it is they can then work on making it better. There are a number of things professionals can do to be sure that their data is good quality. If health care professionals are in the first group they may not need to do much work to check the quality of their data. The best way of checking their data is to review each patient's notes. Primary Care Information Services (PRIMIS), the UK national project concerned primarily with the quality of computerized data in primary care, describes good quality data as: accurate, complete, relevant, up to date, and accessible. Practices take part in PRIMIS as part of a local scheme or project with their own local PRIMIS facilitator.
