Power of expression in the electronic patient record: Structured data or narrative text?

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 58-59, Issue , 2000, Pages 101-110

  Lovis, Christian ^a   Baud, Robert H ^b   Planche, Pierre ^b  

^a Puget Sound Health Care System   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Document centered electronic patient record; Structured data

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; USER INTERFACES;

ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; FREE TEXT; NARRATIVE TEXT; POWER OF EXPRESSION;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

DATA BASE; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 0034282778     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(00)00079-4     Document Type: Article

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