Brief report: Failure of an electronic medical record tool to improve pain assessment documentation

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 185-188

  Saigh, Orit ^a,b   Triola, Marc M ^a   Link, Rnathan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized assessment; Electronic medical record; Pain assessment; Physician compliance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33644840576     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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