Abstract
Medical record keeping has become increasingly important particularly for research, audit and medico-legal purposes. The authors present a protocol, the CRABEL score, that is quick and easy to use for the assessment of the quality of medical record keeping with the purpose of standardizing the audit of medical records and improving their quality.
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