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Table 4.

Mechanisms that support and limit clinical governance from computerized medical records.

Mechanism	Reviewed Elements
Structures	External resources (eg, MIMS) included^a
	Alert to drug interactions^a
	Accept pathology and radiology results as atomised data^a
	Limited search facilities^b
	Variable drug dose calculators^b
	No standardized coding system^b
Processes of care and review	Can generate pay for performance^a
Processes of care and review	Half allow data extraction to participate in audits^b
Processes related to outcomes	No inbuilt data checks for quality^b
Processes related to outcomes	Only one allows in-house sentinel data search facility^b

^aMechanisms that support clinical governance using computerized medical records.

^bMechanisms that limit clinical governance using computerized medical records.