Evaluating the short message service alerting system for critical value notification via PDA telephones

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-156

  Park, Hae Il ^a,c   Min, Won Ki ^a   Lee, Woochang ^a   Park, Hyosoon ^b   Park, Chan Jeoung ^a   Chi, Hyun Sook ^a   Chun, Sail ^a,d  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^d Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Critical value alert; Personal data assistant (PDA) telephone; Short message service (SMS)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HYPERKALEMIA; INFORMATION SERVICE; KOREA; LABORATORY; MOBILE PHONE; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE;

CELLULAR PHONE; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KOREA; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43449120152     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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