Information technology in emergency medicine residency-affiliated emergency departments

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 848-852

  Pallin, Daniel ^a   Lahman, MeeMee ^b   Baumlin, Kevin ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care information systems; Clinical decision support systems; Emergency medicine; Health services research; Medical errors; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SKELETON RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042921451     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.8.848     Document Type: Article

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