Evaluation of a Physician Informatics Tool to Improve Patient Handoffs

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 509-515

  Flanagan, Mindy E ^a,b   Patterson, Emily S ^a,c   Frankel, Richard M ^a,b,e   Doebbeling, Bradley N ^a,b,d,e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Purdue University   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTERIZED PATIENT HANDOFF TOOL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RESIDENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OBSERVATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67649321267     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2892     Document Type: Article

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