Randomised studies in general practice: How to integrate the electronic patient record

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 209-213

  Mosis, Georgio ^a   Koes, Bart ^a   Dieleman, Jeanne ^a   Stricker, Bruno Ch ^a   van der Lei, Johan ^a   Sturkenboom, Miriam C J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electronic patient record (EPR); Observational study; Pragmatic; Randomised clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 28044450890     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v13i3.599     Document Type: Article

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