The electronic patient record as a meaningful audit tool: Accountability and autonomy in general practitioner work

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-52

  Winthereik, Ross Brit ^a   van der Ploeg, Irma ^b   Berg, Marc ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ZUYD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accountability; Autonomy; Electronic patient record (EPR); Ethnography; Evidence based medicine; GP practice; Self management; STS

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845418894     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243906293884     Document Type: Article

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