Electronic dental record use and clinical information management patterns among practitioner-investigators in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-58

  Schleyer, Titus ^a   Song, Mei ^a   Gilbert, Gregg H ^b   Rindal, D Brad ^c   Fellows, Jeffrey L ^d   Gordan, Valeria V ^e,f   Funkhouser, Ellen ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Health Partners Institute for Education and Research   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Department of Restorative Dental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^g University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude to computers; Computers statistics and numerical data utilization; Data collection; Dental informatics; Dental practice management; Medical records systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873358988     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2013.0013     Document Type: Article

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