Decision making by emergency room physicians and residents: Implications for the design of clinical decision support systems

International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 17-35

  Hine, Michael J ^a   Farion, Ken J ^b   Michalowski, Wojtek ^c   Wilk, Szymon ^d  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Evidence based medicine; Health informatics; Healthcare IS; Medical information systems

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CLINICAL DECISION; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MODELING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; INPUT VARIABLES; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84875341829     PISSN: 15553396     EISSN: 1555340X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jhisi.2009040102     Document Type: Article

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