Comparison of traditional and automated nursing records in the medicine services of the Callejón de Huaylas hospitals - Peru [Comparación de los registros de enfermería tradicionales y automatizados en los servicios de medicina de los hospitales del Callejón de Huaylas – Perú]

The objective of this study was to compare the quality of traditional and automated nursing records in the medical services of four hospitals in Callejon de Huaylas - Peru. Investigation of quantitative approach quasi experimental. The population consisted of 32,940 nursing records from the medical records, and the sample consisted of 816 records, selected by stratified probability sampling. The instruments used were; Quality inventory of the nursing record and the software called the Automated Nursing Record System (SIARE) version 1.0. The results show that the difference in quality of the traditional and automated nursing records, with the student's t test obtained a mean of 7.284, a SD of 1.172, a t value = 29.815, with d.f. 22 and a p value = 0.000, resulting in significant differences between the quality scores of the traditional and automated nursing records of the medicine services of the hospitals of the Callejon de Huaylas. It is concluded that the quality (structure, continuity of care and patient safety) of the automated records is high in comparison with traditional nursing records.