Surgical audit using patient records on a microcomputer

The collection and manipulation of patient data from the earliest stage by microcomputer is a desirable goal as in this way valuable information is captured which can be used for the administration of hospital admissions and subsequent analysis of the data will provide the information required for surgical audit. We have implemented a system using a pair of Apple II microcomputers with specifically written software in UCSD PASCAL that has been used in the clinical environment with proven success.