Patterns of use of handheld clinical decision support tools in the clinical setting

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 744-753

  Yu, Feliciano ^a,b   Houston, Thomas K ^a,c,d,e   Ray, Midge N ^a   Garner, Duriel Q ^a   Berner, Eta S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Deep South Center on Effectiveness Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical; Computer assisted; Computers; Decision making; Decision support systems; Handheld; Internal medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROCOMPUTER; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; RESIDENT; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; ALABAMA; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 36248981434     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X07305321     Document Type: Article

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