A personal digital assistant application (MobilDent) for dental fieldwork data collection, information management and database handling

British Dental Journal

Volumn 205, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Forsell, M ^a   Haggstrom M ^a   Johansson, O ^b   Sjogren P ^c  

^a Oral Care AB   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Oral Care AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DENTAL CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; SWEDEN;

COMMUNITY DENTISTRY; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DENTAL HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SWEDEN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 57349115327     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: 17417503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2008.873     Document Type: Article

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