Content overlap in nurse and physician handoff artifacts and the potential role of electronic health records: A systematic review

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 704-712

  Collins, Sarah A ^a   Stein, Daniel M ^a   Vawdrey, David K ^a   Stetson, Peter D ^a   Bakken, Suzanne ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Hand off; Handoff(s); Handover(s); Interdisciplinary; Shift report; Signout and Sign out

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HAND OFF; HANDOFF(S); HANDOVER; INTERDISCIPLINARY; SHIFT-REPORT; SIGNOUT AND SIGN-OUT;

HEALTH; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION USE; NURSING; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; STANDARDIZATION;

INTEROPERABILITY;

ARTIFACT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY CARE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NURSE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79960559057     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.01.013     Document Type: Review

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