Registered nurses' use of electronic health records: Findings from a national survey

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  DesRoches, Catherine ^a   Donelan, Karen ^a   Buerhaus, Peter ^b   Zhonghe, Li ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NURSING CARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; REGISTRATION; TIME MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSING STAFF; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKLOAD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NURSING STAFF; UNITED STATES; WORK SIMPLIFICATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 49449111979     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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