Electronic health record-based messages to primary care providers: Valuable information or just noise?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 283-285

  Murphy, Daniel R ^a,b   Reis, Brian ^a,b   Kadiyala, Himabindu ^a   Hirani, Kamal ^a   Sittig, Dean F ^c   Khan, Myrna M ^a,b   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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; E-MAIL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; NURSE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECONSULTATION;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84863393375     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.740     Document Type: Article

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