Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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3. MacLean, Catherine H., Louie Rachel, Shekelle Paul G., Roth Carol P., Saliba
Debra, Higashi Takahiro, Adams John, Chang John T., Kamberg Caren J.,
Solomon David H., Young Roy T., and Wenger Neil S. "Comparison of
Administrative Data and Medical Records to Measure the Quality of Medical
Care Provided to Vulnerable Older Patients." Medical Care 44.2 (2006): 14148. Web. This source evaluates how the quality of medical records differs
from the standard when compared to records of more elderly patients. This
will help to show the genre conventions of the medical record genre of writing
in the medical field as the article will critique what certain records were
missing. This would imply that what is not present must be an important part
of the genre as the whole argument of the source is that older patients are
not being given equal treatment with regards to the level of expertise used to
document their health records. This source is similar to the other sources in
that it is evaluating documents within the medical field and is revealing the
genre convention associated with such documents. This source does differ
quite a bit from the other two sources though as it takes a more investigative
genre compared to the other two, being the research of the quality of medical
records based upon the age of the patient. Additionally, the article is much
more comparative in its presentation of facts compared to the two other
sources reflecting its more discerning genre and respective genre
conventions. From the source, I intend to gain information pertaining to the
genre conventions primarily relating to medical records of patients
concerning how the main idea of the entire source is to determine whether
the quality of the medical report is determinant upon the age of the person
being evaluated with a negative correlation with age and quality of the
report.
This article is unfortunately the least expansive with regards to what it
discusses in terms of genre as it focuses on the genre conventions of medical
records where else the other sources covered far more than just one genre. I
will say though that its extensive detail makes the source quite valuable as It
will give me more information pertaining to genre conventions and as such, I
feel as though the genre conventions of medical records will be the best
explained and most elaborated upon in my paper. My research still has a few
holes in the data that need to be covered for the research to feel proper and
sufficient for the paper to correctly convey the different genres of the medical
field though. As such I shall seek out other document written in a genre
similar to this one, but, that concern the other genre conventions of the
medical field like emails and science journal type articles.