Assessing the impact of an electronic medical record on nurse documentation time

CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 234-241

  Hakes, Brian ^a   Whittington, John ^b  

^a System Solutions for HealthCare   (United States)

^b OSF Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

EMR benefit realization; Information system benefit realization; Nurse documentation time; Nurse efficiency and ocumentation; Nurse utilization; Work sampling of nurse documentation time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NURSING RECORDS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 49249125318     PISSN: 15382931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCN.0000304801.00628.ab     Document Type: Article

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