Accuracy and brevity in office case records / by Victor Cox Pedersen.

  • Pedersen, Victor Cox, 1867-1958.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Accuracy and brevity in office case records / by Victor Cox Pedersen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    RECORDS.* Victor Cox Pedersen, A.M., M.D., New York. The principle on which the following method of case records is founded is that of plotting the curve of efficiency, for example, in engineering work. It is manifest that one may not evolve a scheme by which the course of all symptoms may be charted as one charts temperature, pulse and respiration, but it is possible, with the aid of signs and symbols, to record the variations in the disease and the changes in treatment on single lines devoted to each important detail. No signs may be found better than those used in algebra variously modified and adapted to the purpose, inasmuch as they not only express the meaning with definiteness and elasticity but also are comprehensible universally. The key, therefore, of these charts, may be re- garded as self-evident or might be printed across the top of each sheet in one or two lines: Positive ± Distinctly weak > Strongly positive-]—(- Very weak-)->> Very strongly positive Unchanged = Extreme -f--]—|--j- Absent 0 Doubtful ? Weak qr The history sheets are of ordinary letterhead size, 8y2 x 11, with the following features shown in the subjoined diagrams. In the original charts the lines are faint blue and faint red so that the eye is not •Read before the American Urological Association, Boston, Mass., April 15th, 16th and 17th, 1913. Variable Decreasing > Increasing < Stopped #