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    Comparison of documentation completeness and clinical productivity between the paper medical record and the military'

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    ์—ญํ•™ํ†ต๊ณ„ํ•™๊ณผ/์„์‚ฌ[ํ•œ๊ธ€] ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ, ์ „์‚ฐ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜๋ฃŒ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ๋„ ์ „์ž ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ๋„์ž…๋˜์–ด ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜๋Š” ์ถ”์„ธ์ด๋‹ค. ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์˜ ์งˆ์€ ์˜๋ฃŒ์˜ ์งˆ๊ณผ ๊ธ์ •์  ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์˜ ์™„์„ฑ๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์˜๋ฃŒ์˜ ์งˆ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์—๋„ ํฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ๋ณ‘์› ์ „์ž์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก AHLTA์˜ ๋„์ž… ์ „ํ›„์˜ ์ˆ˜๊ธฐ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก๊ณผ ์ „์ž์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ Evaluation and Management(E/M)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์˜ ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ , Relative Value Units(RVUs)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ์ง„๋ฃŒ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜์˜€๊ณ , ์˜์‚ฌ์˜ ์„ฑ, ์—ฐ๋ น, ์ง„๋ฃŒ ๊ณผ ๋“ฑ ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์˜ E/M๊ณผ RVUs์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์š”์ธ์„ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ  ์ด์— ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ E/M๊ณผ RVUs๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ „๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์„ ์ œ์–ธํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์˜ค์‚ฐ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ๋ณ‘์›์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ Upper Respiratory Infection(URI, ICD-9 -CM 465.9)์„ ์ฃผ ์ง„๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ Primary Care Clinic, Internal Medicine Clinic, Pediatric Clinic, Flight Medicine Clinic์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•œ ํ™˜์ž์˜ ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก ์„ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜์˜€๊ณ  ์ˆ˜๊ธฐ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์€ 123๋ช…์˜ ์˜์‚ฌ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 135๊ฑด, ์ „์ž ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก ์€ 16๋ช…์˜ ์˜์‚ฌ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 154๊ฑด์„ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด 289๊ฑด์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. Chief Complaints 1ํ•ญ๋ชฉ, HPI(History of Present Illness) 8ํ•ญ๋ชฉ(Table 4), ROS(Review Of Systems) 13 ํ•ญ๋ชฉ, PFSH(Past Medical, Family and/or Social History) 3ํ•ญ๋ชฉ(Table 5), Physical Exam 57ํ•ญ๋ชฉ, Prescription 2ํ•ญ๋ชฉ, ์ด 84ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ๋ณ€์ˆ˜๋กœ ์„ ์ •ํ•˜์˜€๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, Paper์™€ AHLTA์—์„œ ๊ฐ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์˜ ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„๋ฅผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋จผ์ € Chief Complaints๋Š” Paper์™€ AHLTA์—์„œ ๋ณ„ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , HPI๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—์„œ AHLTA์—์„œ์˜ ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์œผ๋ฉฐ, Physical Exam์€ ์ „์ฒด 57ํ•ญ๋ชฉ ์ค‘์—์„œ 7ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—์„œ AHLTA์˜ ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ, ๊ฐ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์˜ ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„ ์ ์ˆ˜์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์š”์ธ์„ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด์•˜์„ ๋•Œ, AHLTA ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—์„œ ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์˜ ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์Œ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ROS๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—์„œ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ž์ผ ๋•Œ ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•˜๊ณ , ROSํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—์„œ๋Š” ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์ž์ผ ๋•Œ ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„ ์ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•˜๋‹ค. ์…‹์งธ, E/M์„ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•˜์˜€์„ ๋•Œ, Paper์—์„œ๋Š” 99213์ด 98.52%๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‚˜, AHLTA์—์„œ๋Š” 99214์˜ ๋น„์œจ์ด ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋†’์•„์กŒ์Œ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ Paper์—์„œ๋Š” ํ‰๊ท  ํ•œ case๋‹น 1.21์˜ RVUs๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๊ณ , AHLTA์—์„œ๋Š” ํ‰๊ท  ํ•œ case๋‹น 1.44๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง์œผ๋กœ์จ, 0.68์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜์‚ฐํ•˜์˜€์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, Paper๋Š” 45.87,AHLTA๋Š”45.87, AHLTA๋Š” 54.58๋กœ์จ, 8.61๋”๋†’์•„์กŒ์Œ์„์•Œ์ˆ˜์žˆ๋‹ค.์ด์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฒฐ๊ณผPaper์—๋น„ํ•ดAHLTA๋ฅผ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€์„๋•Œ,์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์ถฉ์‹ค๋„E/M์ด๋†’์•„์กŒ๊ณ ,์ง„๋ฃŒ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑRVUs๊ฐ€์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์˜€์Œ์„์•Œ์ˆ˜์žˆ๋‹ค.์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์„์ ์‹œ์—์™„์„ฑํ•˜๋„๋ก๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง์„ํ•˜๊ณ ,์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ์˜ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด์™€์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด,ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ด๋‹๋“ฑ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ ์ธ๋ฌธ์ œ์—๊ด€ํ•œํ˜‘์กฐ๊ฐ€์ž˜์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ ,์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์ž‘์„ฑ์˜๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋‚˜์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์ธ์‹๋“ฑ์—๊ด€ํ•œ์ฝ”๋”ฉ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜๊ต์œก์ด์ž˜๋ณด์™„๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด,์ „์ž์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์ด์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์ถฉ์‹ค๋„์™€์ง„๋ฃŒ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์—๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ์˜ํ–ฅ์„๋ฏธ์น ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ๋‹ค.[์˜๋ฌธ]Background:Thereisverylittleknownaboutthecontentandqualityofelectronicmedicalrecords(AHLTA)comparedwithhandwritten(paper)records.Thisstudyattemptedtodemonstratethedifferencesincodingforevaluationandmanagement(E/M)servicescodesbetweenthetwotypesofrecords.TheresultingfinancialimplicationsofphysicianproductivitywerecalculatedintermsofdollarsamountsandrelativevalueUnits(RVUs)betweenthepaperrecordsandtheelectronicrecords.Methods:Iconductedahospital?basedcrossโˆ’sectionalstudyofrandomlyselectedUpperRespiratoryInfection(URI)patientchartsbeforeandaftertheimplementationofAHLTA.Thisstudyencompassed135visitsfrom123physicians(paper)and154visitsfrom16physicians(AHLTA).Thedataextractedincludedchiefcomplaints,historyofpresentillness(HPI),Reviewofsystems(ROS),pastmedical,familyandsocialhistory(PFSH),physicalexamandprescriptions.Thedefinitionsusedarelistedinthe1997DocumentationguidelinesforEvaluationandManagement.Results:TherewerenostatisticallysignificantdifferencesnotedinthechiefcomplaintsbetweenthedocumentationofeitherthepaperrecordsorAHLTA.InterestinglycomparedwiththepaperbasedrecordstheAHTLArecordsdidshowmoreindepthdocumentationinregardstolocation,duration,context,associationofsignsandsymptomsofHPI(P<0.05).AHLTArecordswerealsomorelikelytohaveROSrecordedandweremoredetailedwithphysicalexamfindings.InadditionwhenaprescriptionwasprescribedtheAHLTArecordsweremorelikelytospecifythedrugdoses(P<0.0001).Multiregressionanalysiswasusedtoanalyzethevariablefordocumentationcompletenessinthemedicalrecords.ThevariablesthatsignificantlyaffectedcompletenessofthemedicalrecordswereAHLTAandthephysicianโ€™ssex.Themajorityofthepaperrecordswerecodedas99213(98.528.61 ๋” ๋†’์•„์กŒ์Œ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ Paper์— ๋น„ํ•ด AHLTA๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€์„ ๋•Œ, ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„ E/M์ด ๋†’์•„์กŒ๊ณ , ์ง„๋ฃŒ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ RVUs๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์˜€์Œ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์ ์‹œ์— ์™„์„ฑํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ์˜ ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด์™€ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด, ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ด๋‹ ๋“ฑ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ํ˜‘์กฐ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ , ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก ์ž‘์„ฑ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ ์ธ์‹ ๋“ฑ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ฝ”๋”ฉ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ต์œก์ด ์ž˜ ๋ณด์™„๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ „์ž ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ์˜๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ก ์ถฉ์‹ค๋„์™€ ์ง„๋ฃŒ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ๋‹ค. [์˜๋ฌธ] Background: There is very little known about the content and quality of electronic medical records(AHLTA) compared with handwritten (paper) records. This study attempted to demonstrate the differences in coding for evaluation and management(E/M) services codes between the two types of records. The resulting financial implications of physician productivity were calculated in terms of dollars amounts and relative value Units(RVUs) between the paper records and the electronic records. Methods: I conducted a hospital ? based cross-sectional study of randomly selected Upper Respiratory Infection(URI) patient charts before and after the implementation of AHLTA. This study encompassed 135 visits from 123 physicians(paper) and 154 visits from 16 physicians(AHLTA). The data extracted included chief complaints, history of present illness(HPI), Review of systems(ROS), past medical, family and social history(PFSH), physical exam and prescriptions. The definitions used are listed in the 1997 Documentation guidelines for Evaluation and Management. Results: There were no statistically significant differences noted in the chief complaints between the documentation of either the paper records or AHLTA. Interestingly compared with the paper based records the AHTLA records did show more in depth documentation in regards to location, duration, context, association of signs and symptoms of HPI(P<0.05). AHLTA records were also more likely to have ROS recorded and were more detailed with physical exam findings. In addition when a prescription was prescribed the AHLTA records were more likely to specify the drug doses(P<0.0001). Multi regression analysis was used to analyze the variable for documentation completeness in the medical records. The variables that significantly affected completeness of the medical records were AHLTA and the physicianโ€™s sex. The majority of the paper records were coded as 99213(98.52%), however on the basis of AHLTA computations 65.58% could have been billed as a 99213 visit and 34.42% met criteria for a 99214 visit. I estimated that on average, the paper records produced 1.21 RVUs and AHLTA records would have produced 1.44 RVUs with a difference in RVUs of 0.68. The average estimated revenue generated respectively for paper and AHLTA records were 45.87 and 54.58.Conclusions:ThisstudyisthefirststudyofitskindtoreportonE/MandRVUsofAHLTAcomparedwithpaperrecords.IfoundthatAHLTAdocumentationsupportedahigherlevelofE/MservicesinmostcasesandthecostintermsofRVUswasanimpressive54.58. Conclusions: This study is the first study of its kind to report on E/M and RVUs of AHLTA compared with paper records. I found that AHLTA documentation supported a higher level of E/M services in most cases and the cost in terms of RVUs was an impressive 8.61 increase based on reimbursement criteria for E/M codes.ope
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