What are the benefits and risks of fitting patients with radiofrequency identification devices?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1709-1711

  Levine, Mark ^a,b   Adida, Ben ^c   Mandl, Kenneth ^c   Kohane, Isaac ^d   Halamka, John ^e,f  

^a AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRONICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIVACY; RISK; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PRIVACY; RADIO; RISK; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 36849036892     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040322     Document Type: Short Survey

References (3)

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