Prevalence and functionality of electronic health records in internal medicine continuity clinics

Academic Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1369-1377

  Reddy, Siddharta G ^a   Babbott, Stewart F ^b   Beasley, Brent W ^c   Nadkarni, Mohan M ^d   Gertner, Eric J ^e   Holmboe, Eric S ^a  

^a AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955330699     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181df1903     Document Type: Article

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