Development and Testing of a Scale to Assess Physician Attitudes about Handheld Computers with Decision Support

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 567-572

  Ray, Midge N ^a   Houston, Thomas K ^a,b   Yu, Feliciano B ^a   Menachemi, Nir ^c   Maisiak, Richard S ^a   Allison, Jeroan J ^a   Berner, Eta S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT T TEST; VALIDITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33747883615     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2096     Document Type: Article

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