Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement by Use of Digital Clinical Documentation

Clinical documentation, including medical/ dental history, oral status findings, treatment planning, and progress notes, are prerequisites for the use of retrospective evaluation procedures as well as for quality assessment and enhancement. A substantial condition for making full profit of these advantages of digital clinical records is that their design is based on established physiologic- and cognitiveergonomic concepts. Keywords: Digital clinical record, quality assurance, human cognitive performance, cognitive ergonomics