Neither panacea nor black box: Responding to three Journal of Biomedical Informatics papers on computerized physician order entry systems

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 267-269

  Koppel, Ross ^a   Localio, A Russell ^b   Cohen, Abigail ^a   Strom, Brian L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVALUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CLINICAL PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23244449252     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.05.006     Document Type: Note

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