An Industrial Process View of Information Delivery to Support Clinical Decision Making: Implications for Systems Design and Process Measures

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 266-278

  Elson, Robert B ^a   Faughnan, John G ^a   Connelly, Donald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031181066     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040266     Document Type: Review

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