Performance factors of mobile rich media job aids for community health workers

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-137

  Florez Arango, Jose F ^a   Sriram Iyengar, M ^b   Dunn, Kim ^b   Zhang, Jiajie ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL ERROR; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ADULT; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; CELLULAR PHONE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLOMBIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79953082291     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2010.010025     Document Type: Article

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