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For Your Interest A case for archiving A report appeared recently in Working Environment ­ environment. Both the World Health Organisation and 87. a journal published by the Swedish Work Environ­ the International Cancer Research Council have used ment Association. The report dealt with the Malmo the Malmo archives for surveys. It would be interesting General Hospital's X-Ray archives. dating from 1916 to hear from MRAs who have been involved in the onwards. and consisting of more than 7000 metres of storage and retention of X-Rays in Australia. shelving containing X-Rays and referrals. The Malmo archives are extremely important in that the catchment Health, Law and Ethics area of this hospital has a clearly charted population group in a city of rapid technological development. This For a comprehensive report on the American Society of makes the X-Rays of extreme importance for the Law and Medicine conference (held in Sydney, August epidemiological study of the course and prevalence of 18-21, 1986), see the Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. disease, and in particular disease caused by the working 146. January 5, 1987, pp.22-26. Let it not be thought that PURGES is only interested in things past, things old. PURGES welcomes the transformation of the Australian Medical Record Journal into its smart new format and commends all MRAs to contribute to its comments in future issues. If you refer back to the March 1986 edition (pp15-16), "Echoes from the Past", you will see what a long way we have come since the first National Newsletter was issued in February, 1971. MEDICAL RECORD ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA RESOURCE CENTRE PUBLICATIONS Price per copy Medical Record Association of Australia (Information Brochure) - 1985 Position Statement on Quality Assurance - 1983 Model Duty Statement for Medical Record $3.00 Administrators - 1985 Evaluation of Medical Record Department Using the Criteria Method - 1985 $5.00 Publications are available from: Price includes postage. Cheques should be made M.RAA Resource Centre, P.O. Box 12, payable to the 'Medical Record Association of NORTH MELBOURNE, VIC. 3051 Australia.' AMR JOURNAL, JUNE, 1987 37 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Medical Record Journal SAGE

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Australian Medical Record Journal , Volume 17 (2): 1 – Jun 1, 1987

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SAGE
Copyright
© 1987 Health Information Management Association of Australia Limited
ISSN
0817-3907
eISSN
1833-3575
DOI
10.1177/183335838701700214
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Abstract

A case for archiving A report appeared recently in Working Environment ­ environment. Both the World Health Organisation and 87. a journal published by the Swedish Work Environ­ the International Cancer Research Council have used ment Association. The report dealt with the Malmo the Malmo archives for surveys. It would be interesting General Hospital's X-Ray archives. dating from 1916 to hear from MRAs who have been involved in the onwards. and consisting of more than 7000 metres of storage and retention of X-Rays in Australia. shelving containing X-Rays and referrals. The Malmo archives are extremely important in that the catchment Health, Law and Ethics area of this hospital has a clearly charted population group in a city of rapid technological development. This For a comprehensive report on the American Society of makes the X-Rays of extreme importance for the Law and Medicine conference (held in Sydney, August epidemiological study of the course and prevalence of 18-21, 1986), see the Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. disease, and in particular disease caused by the working 146. January 5, 1987, pp.22-26. Let it not be thought that PURGES is only interested in things past, things old. PURGES welcomes the transformation of the Australian Medical Record Journal into its smart new format and commends all MRAs to contribute to its comments in future issues. If you refer back to the March 1986 edition (pp15-16), "Echoes from the Past", you will see what a long way we have come since the first National Newsletter was issued in February, 1971. MEDICAL RECORD ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA RESOURCE CENTRE PUBLICATIONS Price per copy Medical Record Association of Australia (Information Brochure) - 1985 Position Statement on Quality Assurance - 1983 Model Duty Statement for Medical Record $3.00 Administrators - 1985 Evaluation of Medical Record Department Using the Criteria Method - 1985 $5.00 Publications are available from: Price includes postage. Cheques should be made M.RAA Resource Centre, P.O. Box 12, payable to the 'Medical Record Association of NORTH MELBOURNE, VIC. 3051 Australia.' AMR JOURNAL, JUNE, 1987 37

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