This paper describes an application of computer systems to institutional records in order to make them available for research purposes. It simultaneously explores the generality of such a system for use at psychiatric facilities on a wider scale.
Originally reported in 1964, the Psychiatric Case History Event System has been implemented on a large scale in a study of the decision‐making process in psychiatric diagnosis. The Event System is a generalized information‐processing system for conversion of case history data into computer acceptable form for subsequent retrieval and analysis. The details of the processing of data from point of transcription to computer output are now presented. In so doing, the logic of the system, and its generality for application in a variety of clinical and research endeavors, are made evident.
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