Usability of a mobile electronic medical record prototype: A verbal protocol analysis

Informatics for Health and Social Care

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-149

  Wu, Robert C ^a,b   Orr, M Scott ^a   Chignell, Mark ^a   Straus, Sharon E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROCOMPUTER; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 55449112182     PISSN: 17538157     EISSN: 17538165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538150802127223     Document Type: Article

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