Impact of computerized information systems on workload in operating room and intensive care unit

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-26

  Bosman, R J ^a  

^a Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

anesthesia; computerized clinical information systems; health care; hospital information systems; intensive care information systems; intensive care units; medical order entry systems; medical records systems; operating room information systems; patient data management systems; quality assurance; software; time and motion studies; workload

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NURSING STAFF; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; OPERATING ROOM INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 61849090383     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2008.10.001     Document Type: Review

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