Abstract
[Purpose] We made rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment records available on a Local Area Network (LAN) in a hospital and investigated their use by nurses. [Subjects and Methods] Questionnaires were distributed to 92 nurses in the department of orthopedics, cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, and nerve medicine. [Results] The numbers of returned questionnaires was 66, a response rate of 71.7%. Fifty nurses knew about the page of the rehabilitation department on the LAN, and 16 did not. It had been viewed by 29 nurses. Twenty-one had used it to view records of rehabilitation nursing, and 19 for records of physiotherapy. The reason for utilizing a service which automatically output records of the day before was to collect and communicate patient information. [Conclusion] A lot of nurses utilized the service which automatically outputs the rehabilitation records of the day before.
