Critical incidents and journey mapping as techniques to evaluate the impact of online evidence retrieval systems on health care delivery and patient outcomes

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 234-245

  Westbrook, Johanna I ^a   Coiera, Enrico W ^a   Sophie Gosling, A ^b   Braithwaite, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Evidence based medicine; Information retrieval; Journey mapping; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL NURSE CONSULTANTS (CNCS); EVALUATION METHODS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINES; JOURNEY MAPPING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NURSING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATIENT MONITORING;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICAL INCIDENTS METHOD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSE CONSULTANT; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNET; NEW SOUTH WALES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 33846839364     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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