A knowledge audit of the managers of primary care organizations: Top priority is how to use routinely collected clinical data for quality improvement

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-80

  de Lusignan, Simon ^a   Wells, Sally ^a   Shaw, Adrienne ^a   Rowlands, Gill ^a   Crilly, Tessa ^a  

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

Author keywords

Computerized medical record; Health care; Information management; Medical informatics; Needs assessment; Primary care; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; MANAGER; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; TECHNOLOGY;

DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LONDON; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80051979491     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230400028455     Document Type: Article

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