Introduction of electronic referral from community associated with more timely review by secondary services

Applied Clinical Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 546-564

  Warren, Jim ^a   White, S ^a   Day, K J ^a   Gu, Y ^a   Pollock, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Process improvement; Provider provider communications; User acceptance and resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868627665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18690327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-06-RA-0039     Document Type: Article

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