Hospital implementation of health information technology and quality of care: Are they related?

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Restuccia, Joseph D ^a,b   Cohen, Alan B ^a,b   Horwitt, Jedediah N ^a   Shwartz, Michael ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866662028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-109     Document Type: Review

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