Does The Medical Record Graduates Have More Competence Than The Non-Medical Record Graduates?

Health worker is every person who devotes himself in the field of health and has knowledge and skills through education in the health field. One of the health workers is a medical record officer. A health medical recorder must have good competence. At the RSUD Kota Tangerang there are medical record officers consisting of 7 graduates of medical records and 19 graduates of non-medical records. It shows that there is a gap between the level of education in medical records and non-medical records. This is very influential with the competence of officers who will have an impact on service in RSUD Kota Tangerang. Lack of knowledge of medical records personnel about the importance of medical records can be detrimental to hospitals, if at any time lawsuits occur, the officer must have good knowledge of medical records. This research aims to determine the differences in knowledge between medical records officers from medical record graduate and non-medical records graduates. This research was conducted using a quantitative approach with T- Test Independent. From the results of the research found that the knowledge of officers with a background in medical records has an average value of knowledge of 71.4 and non-medical records has an average value of 44.9. Hypothesis test results using an independent t test found that there are differences in competence between medical record graduates and medical record graduates (p value <0.05). It can be concluded that the educational background influences the knowledge of officers. It is expected that the medical records officer is a medical record graduate who can have an impact on improving performance in the hospital.