Potential impacts of patient access to their electronic care records

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-60

  Honeyman, Alasdair ^a   Cox, Benita ^b   Fisher, Brian ^c  

^a Lambeth Walk Group Practice   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Wells Park Practice   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic care records system; Patient access

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 18744363949     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v13i1.579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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