Chart biopsy: An emerging medical practice enabled by electronic health records and its impacts on emergency department-inpatient admission handoffs

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 260-267

  Hilligoss, Brian ^a   Zheng, Kai ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MICHIGAN; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT HANDOFF; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84874783669     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001065     Document Type: Article

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