The impact of electronic medical records on patient-doctor communication during consultation: A narrative literature review

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 641-649

  Shachak, Aviv ^a,b   Reis, Shmuel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical encounter; Electronic medical record; Literature review; Patient centredness; Patient doctor communication; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

COMMUNICATION; EPISODE OF CARE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 68349108087     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01065.x     Document Type: Article

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