Evidence for handheld electronic medical records in improving care: A systematic review

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wu, Robert C ^a   Straus, Sharon E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROCOMPUTER; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; STANDARDS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DOCUMENTATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747105802     PISSN: 14726947     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-6-26     Document Type: Review

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