[Clear text-oriented documentation in hand surgery--integrated in the medical routine documentation service].

For reasons of contents and economy, the construction of medical documentation should be integrated into the secretary's routine work. An efficient and inexpensive microcomputer is able to facilitate and accelerate the typing work of a hand surgical section by the use of a modern data processing system. At the same time important data can be stored for documentation without being coded and with hardly any additional effort. The dates can be analysed according to different criteria (e.g. statistics of diagnosis/therapy, the recall of data of patients with certain diagnosis, yearly statistics and so on). Knowledge of data processing is not necessary.