The contextual nature of medical information

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 56, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 51-60

  Berg, Marc ^a   Goorman, Els ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electronic patient record; Medical data; Medical information; Medical profession; Medical sociology; Nursing profession

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ELECTRONICS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0033485302     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(99)00041-6     Document Type: Article

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