Nurses' use of computerised clinical decision support systems: A case site analysis

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1159-1167

  Dowding, Dawn ^a   Mitchell, Natasha ^a   Randell, Rebecca ^b   Foster, Rebecca ^c   Lattimer, Valerie ^c   Thompson, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study research; Clinical decision making; Computerised decision making; Nursing; Technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NURSE;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NURSES;

EID: 61849165202     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02607.x     Document Type: Article

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