'Rage against the machine?': Nurses' and midwives' experiences of using Computerized Patient Information Systems for clinical information

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-25

  Darbyshire, Philip ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinicians' experiences; Computerised Patient Information Systems (CPIS); Focus groups; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITALIZATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONICS; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MIDWIFE; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERCEPTION; PHENOMENOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAGE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER LITERACY; COMPUTER USER TRAINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEGATIVISM; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 0942289815     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2003.00823.x     Document Type: Article

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