Copy and Paste: A Remediable Hazard of Electronic Health Records

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 495-496

  Siegler, Eugenia L ^a   Adelman, Ronald ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONFIDENTIALITY; COPYING PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66149127279     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.02.010     Document Type: Editorial

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