Caring for individual patients and beyond: Enhancing care through secondary use of data in a general practice setting

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 461-474

  Tolar, Marianne ^a   Balka, Ellen ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community health centres; Computerized; Health care; Medical records systems; Organizational case studies; Primary health care; Quality assurance; Reminder systems

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRES; COMPUTERIZED; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PRIMARY HEALTHCARE; REMINDER SYSTEMS;

DISEASES; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ACTION RESEARCH; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GENERAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84862134926     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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