This study aims to develop a framework for the management of medical records in support of health-care service delivery in the hospitals in the Limpopo province of South Africa.,The study was predominantly quantitative and has used the questionnaires, system analysis, document analysis and observation to collect data in 40 hospitals of Limpopo province. The sample of 49 per cent (306) records management officials were drawn out of 622 (100 per cent) total population. The response rate was 71 per cent (217) out of the entire sample.,The study discovered that a framework for management of medical records in the public hospitals is not in place because of several reasons and further demonstrates that public health-care institutions need an integrative framework for the proper management of medical records of all forms and in all media.,The study develops and suggests a framework to embed medical records management into the health-care service delivery workflow for effective records management and ease of access. It is hoped that such a framework will help hospitals in South Africa and elsewhere to improve their medical records management to support health-care service provision.

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支持南非林波波省公共医疗服务的医疗记录管理框架

这项研究旨在为南非林波波省医院的医疗记录管理框架提供支持，以支持其医疗保健服务。该研究主要是定量的，已使用了问卷，系统分析，文件分析和观察以收集林波波省40家医院的数据。从622名（100％）总人口中抽取了49％（306名）记录管理人员作为样本。回应率为整个样本中的71％（217）。该研究发现，由于多种原因，没有建立公立医院医疗记录管理框架，并且进一步证明了公共医疗机构需要一个适当管理各种形式和所有媒体医疗记录的综合框架。该研究提出并提出了一个框架，以将医疗记录管理嵌入到卫生保健服务提供工作流程中，以实现有效的记录管理和易于访问。希望这样一个框架将有助于南非和其他地方的医院改善其病历管理，以支持提供保健服务。