Usability: A critical dimension for assessing the quality of clinical systems

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 195-198

  Pearce, Christopher ^a   Shachak, Aviv ^b   Kushniruk, Andre ^c   De Lusignan, Simon ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computerised medical record systems; Computers; Information science; Medical informatics; Quality control; Technology; User computer interface

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77950788929     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v17i4.736     Document Type: Review

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