IT-enabled knowledge management in healthcare delivery: The case of emergency care

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Alavi, Maryam ^a   Johnson, Steven L ^b   Willey, Terry ^c   Yoo, Youngjin ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Healthcare; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; FIELD STUDIES; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; KNOWLEDGE APPLICATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; TIME PRESSURES;

DECISION MAKING; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84870966017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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