In 2002, the Department of Health (DH) introduced an information strategy that was intended to improve care, reduce duplication and increase patients' involvement in their own records and management of care. Student midwives are educated to appreciate that good record keeping and documentation is integral to safe, effective midwifery practice. As electronic health records (EHRs) become more widespread, this survey aimed to investigate midwifery students' experiences of electronic health records (EHR) in practice, using questionnaires and focus groups. The questionnaire results indicated the types of EHRs students had accessed and used. From the focus group, three themes emerged: benefits of EHRs for care delivery; practical issues of EHRs and accountability; incongruence between EHRs and the concept of ‘normality’ in childbirth. As student midwives increasingly encounter EHRs in their practice, education and health providers should collaborate to implement appropriate training and preparation.
If students have positive experiences with EHRs during training and have opportunities to use EHR systems while on placement, they are more likely support the implementation of EHRs as they enter the workplace as qualified staff.
A single‐equation import demand model was developed to estimate U.S. demand for apparel imports from developed and developing countries. Separate analyses were done for each region usingannualdatafrom 1974 to 1988. The independent variables were U.S. apparel expenditures, prices of apparel imports relative to domestic prices, and trend. They had a significant impact on apparel imports in most instances. The own‐price elasticities of demandfor imports varied by import source. They rangedfrom −0.61 to −0.81for the developing countries andfrom −2.35 to −2.57for the developed countries. In contrast, expenditure elasticities were greater than unity for both regions. The sign of the coefficient of the trend variable was positive for developed countries, whereas it was negative for developing countries, which is consistent with the implementation of the Multifiber Arrangement.
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