Physicians' attitudes towards copy and pasting in electronic note writing

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-68

  O'Donnell, Heather C ^a,b,d   Kaushal, Rainu ^a   Barrón, Yolanda ^a   Callahan, Mark A ^c   Adelman, Ronald D ^a   Siegler, Eugenia L ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c FOJP Service Corporation   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude of health personnel; Documentation mt methods ; Medical records system, computerized; Medical staff, hospital; User computer interface

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC NOTE WRITING; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RESIDENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PHYSICIANS; WRITING;

EID: 58149157912     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0843-2     Document Type: Article

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