The impact of electronic health records on time efficiency of physicians and nurses: A systematic review

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 505-516

  Poissant, Lise ^a   Pereira, Jennifer ^b   Tamblyn, Robyn ^a   Kawasumi, Yuko ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICINES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRONICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 24044539547     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1700     Document Type: Article

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