Review of the Use of Color Codes in Outpatient Medical Records to Prevent Errors in the Medical Record Alignment System at Hospital X Bandung

Abstract

Hospital X Bandung is one of the teaching hospitals that has various services, one of which is the service in the medical record section. The medical record also consists of several units, including a medical record file storage unit, but there are obstacles in the storage section, namely the use of a color coded system in outpatient medical records that are already running but have not fully met expectations because the standard operating procedure that governs this system has not made officially by the medical record installation so that it has an impact on the storage of outpatient medical records and on the storage officer.

This research uses descriptive research with observation and interview methods. This research consists of population and research sample. Officers at the outpatient service locker as a population and this population also acts as a sample in this study.

Based on the results of the study, the use of color coding in outpatient medical records did not work properly, this was evidenced by the results of interviews with outpatient medical record sub-section officers. outpatient medical records the obstacle that is the obstacle is the time constraint because there is no special officer to paste the color code on the outpatient medical record file and the efforts made for now are helping each other and going out in the field to help other officers in providing color codes on the file outpatient medical records.