Defining and measuring physicians' responses to clinical reminders

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-326

  Vashitz, Geva ^a   Meyer, Joachim ^a   Parmet, Yisrael ^a   Peleg, Roni ^a,b   Goldfarb, Dan ^b   Porath, Avi ^a,c   Gilutz, Harel ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Cognitive engineering; Compliance; Decision aids; Dyslipidemia; Guidelines; Medical decision support systems; Reactance; Reliance; Spillover; Treatment gap

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ENGINEERING; COMPLIANCE; DECISION AIDS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GUIDELINES; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; REACTANCE; RELIANCE; SPILLOVER; TREATMENT GAP;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHOLESTEROL; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICINE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MENTAL COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTANCE; RECALL; RELIANCE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SPILLOVER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REMINDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 62049083835     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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