Electronic health records: A new tool to combat chronic kidney disease?

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 175-183

  Navaneethan, Sankar D ^a,b   Jolly, Stacey E ^b,c   Sharp, John ^a   Jain, Anil ^c,d   Schold, Jesse D ^a   Schreiber, Martin J ^a   Nally, Joseph V ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Medicine Institute   (United States)

^d Explorys   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Electronic health records; Quality of care; Research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

EID: 84874960328     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/CN107757     Document Type: Article

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