An Australian case study of patient attitudes towards the use of computerised medical records and unique identifiers

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 1430-1434

  Bomba, David ^a   De Silva, Ashley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computerised Medical Records; Consumer Health Informatics; Patients; Unique Identifiers

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATICS; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HEALTH INFORMATICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT ATTITUDES; PATIENTS; UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS;

HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT RIGHT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT RIGHTS; PATIENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 79957574840     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-1430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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