Design of RCSS: Resource Coordination Systems for Surgical Services Using Distributed Communications

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 125-135

  Strum, David P ^b   Vargas, Luis G ^a   May, Jerrold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST CONTROL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; OPERATING ROOM; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COST CONTROL; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OPERATING ROOM INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPERATING ROOMS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0031093934     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040125     Document Type: Article

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