Pain management documentation: Analyzing one hospital's computerized clinical records

CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 512-518

  Samuels, Joanne G ^a   Kritter, Dawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized clinical record; Documentation; Electronic health record; Information retrieval; Nursing documentation; Pain management; Pain measurement; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING RECORDS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053910803     PISSN: 15382931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCN.0b013e31821a1582     Document Type: Article

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