Hospital quality of care: Does information technology matter? The relationship between information technology adoption and quality of care

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-59

  Menachemi, Nir ^a   Chukmaitov, Askar ^a   Saunders, Charles ^a   Brooks, Robert G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Hospital quality of care; Information technology; Inpatient quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FLORIDA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 37349056701     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HMR.0000304497.89684.36     Document Type: Article

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