Notifications received by primary care practitioners in electronic health records: A taxonomy and time analysis

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Murphy, Daniel R ^a,b   Reis, Brian ^a   Sittig, Dean F ^c   Singh, Hardeep ^a,b  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous alerts; Classification; Electronic health records; Health information technology; Medical informatics; Primary care; Taxonomy; Time and motion studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYNCHRONOUS ALERT TAXONOMY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; WORKLOAD;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84856110932     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.07.029     Document Type: Article

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