Attitudes of first-year medical students toward the confidentiality of computerized patient records

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-60

  Davis, Luke ^a,b   Domm, Jennifer A ^a   Konikoff, Michael R ^a   Miller, Randolph A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CURRICULUM; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032906492     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060053     Document Type: Article

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