Effects of electronic medical record in a Chinese hospital: A time series study

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 683-689

  Xue, Yajiong ^a   Liang, Huigang ^a   Wu, Xiaocheng ^b   Gong, Hai ^b   Li, Bin ^b   Zhang, Yuxia ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JIANGYIN PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Electronic medical record; Infection rate; Interrupted time series; Length of stay; Mortality rate; Patient cost

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMR SYSTEMS; INFECTION RATES; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY RATE;

COSTS; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHINA; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MORTALITY;

EID: 84866175587     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.05.017     Document Type: Article

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