Real-time checking of electronic anesthesia records for documentation errors and automatically text messaging clinicians improves quality of documentation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 192-201

  Sandberg, Warren S ^a,d   Sandberg, Elisabeth H ^b   Seim, Andreas R ^c   Anupama, Shaji ^a   Ehrenfeld, Jesse M ^a,d   Spring, Stephen F ^a   Walsh, John L ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANESTHESIA DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37549034658     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000289640.38523.bc     Document Type: Article

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