Users' attitudes to an electronic medical record system and its correlates: A multivariate analysis

Health Information Management Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 33-40

  Al Azmi, Saadoun Faris ^a   Al Enezi, Naser ^b   Chowdhury, Rafiq I ^b  

^a MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Electronic medical record; Evaluation; Kuwait; Medical receptionists; Medical records, computerised; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KUWAIT; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KUWAIT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECEPTIONISTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650945452     PISSN: 18333583     EISSN: 18333575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/183335830903800205     Document Type: Review

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