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POMR

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POMRProblem-Oriented Medical Record


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[16] For patients with multifaceted medical problems who were being treated by clinicians from numerous disciplines, the organization imposed by the POMR presumably centered each clinician's effort toward a coordinated approach (and accountability) to the patient's problems, thus offering one major advantage in using the system.
The chapter "Methods of Record Keeping" covers different record-keeping methods like POMR and SOAP, but so superficially that you do not get an understanding of what they are and how they can be used in the assessment of older patients.
In actual practice, it proved to be difficult for most medical providers in most settings to include all the elements of the POMR for each problem and to recall from memory in a rigorous manner all the knowledge necessary to implement all the components.
 
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