Users can do better with PDAs than paper: A usability study of PDA-based vs. paper-based nursing documentation systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5616 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages 395-403

  Rodríguez, Néstor J ^a   Borges, José A ^a   Crespo, Gilberto ^a   Pérez, Carlos ^a   Martinez, Carlos ^a   Colón Rivera, Celia R ^a   Ardín, Aixa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Medical informatics; Mobile devices; PDAs; Usability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NURSING DOCUMENTATION; PAPER-BASED SYSTEM; PATIENT RECORD; PDAS; POINT OF CARE; SYSTEM ASPECTS; USABILITY; USABILITY STUDIES;

HOSPITALS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; NURSING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS;

EID: 70350334148     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02713-0_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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