TURF: Toward a unified framework of EHR usability

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1056-1067

  Zhang, Jiajie ^a,b   Walji, Muhammad F ^a,b  

^a National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

EHR; Function; Representation; Satisfying; Task; TURF; Usability; Usability metrics; Usable; Useful; User

Indexed keywords

EHR; REPRESENTATION; SATISFYING; TASK; TURF; USABILITY; USABILITY METRICS; USABLE; USEFUL; USER;

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; FUNCTIONS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; TURF THEORY;

MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SOFTWARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84855911961     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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