- ON00343 OCI fonds-5-5A1
- Subseries
- 1975-1996
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds
Subseries contains files and graphs of the clinical courses of patients with leukemia. These graphs were kept by the Acute Leukemia Service from about 1971 to 1983. They represent clinical record keeping in the pre-computer era. This type of graphic representation was discontinued in 1983 in favour of computer-based record keeping. Records were transferred as binders titled as follows: Leukemia Protocols, Leukemia – Active A-L, Leukemia – Active M-Z, Acute Leukemia – Deceased A-E, Acute Leukemia – Deceased F-H [includes I-Z], Leukemia File Worksheets : AA2-AA3 : May 1977 – Dec. 1979, and Miscellaneous Patients.
The Protocols binder contained copies of treatment protocols used by the clinical leukemia service during this period. Patients who were included in the binders labeled Leukemia-Active were on active treatment at the time this record-keeping was discontinued. Records of patients who had died had been removed from the active binders. The binder labeled “miscellaneous patients” referred to patients not treated with standard PMH protocols or who were admitted to the service after having received some amount of treatment from another hospital.
The first five files in the subseries contain general information regarding the Clinical Leukemia Service at OCI/PMH from the period 1989-1990. File 5A1.138 includes planning papers from 1975 regarding the development of a leukemia service at the Princess Margaret Hospital.