A Review of: “Groups: Applying the Functional Group Model,edited by Sharan L. Schwartzberg,Margot C. Howe, & Mary Alicia Barnes, 2008”

This paper describes the process of developing and implementing a new information system, POTENT, as part of a quality assurance exercise to improve occupational therapy documentation in the hospital record. Results of a Retrospective criteria audit are presented and are supportive of a more rigorous examination of POTENT's impact on documentation practices.