Impact of electronic medical record on physician practice in office settings: A systematic review

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lau, Francis ^a   Price, Morgan ^b   Boyd, Jeanette ^c   Partridge, Colin ^d   Bell, Heidi ^a   Raworth, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Admirals Medical Clinic   (Canada)

^d Kootenay Boundary and Creston Community of Practice   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84857346728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-10     Document Type: Review

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