Positive effects of electronic patient records on three clinical activities

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 809-817

  Hertzum, Morten ^a   Simonsen, Jesper ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electronic patient records; Healthcare IT; Mental workload; Nursing handovers; Real world evaluation; Team conferences

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM THEORY; TURBULENT FLOW;

ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORDS; HEALTHCARE IT; MENTAL WORKLOAD; REAL-WORLD EVALUATION; TEAM CONFERENCES;

NURSING;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NURSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; WORKLOAD;

EID: 54149087444     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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