Collection and retrieval of structured clinical data from electronic patient records in general practice: A first-phase study to create a health care database for research and quality assessment

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-10

  Månsson, Jörgen ^a,b   Nilsson, Gunnar ^c   Björkelund, Cecilia ^a   Strender, Lars Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Primary Health Care Centre Husläkarna I Kungsbacka   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electronic patient record; General practice; Health care database; Primary health care; Structured data entry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTRATION; SWEDEN; WORKLOAD;

DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 11144357043     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02813430310003660     Document Type: Article

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