Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:340-341
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
The use of problem-oriented medical records in community mental health centers
GM Vickar and M Herjanic
The authors' questionnaire survey of 147 community mental health centers
revealed that 36 (24%) were using problem-oriented medical records (POMR),
34 (23%) planned to use them, 23 (16%) were uncertain and 54 (37%) had no
considered using them. According to the responses of centers that were
using POMR and the authors' experience, the advantages of POMR in
psychiatry are similar to their advantages in other specialties, and the
difficulties in implementing this system are related to the definition of
"problems."
