The use of personal digital assistants in clinical decision making by health care professionals: A systematic review

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-28

  Divall, Pip ^a   Camosso Stefinovic, Janette ^b   Baker, Richard ^b  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; decision support systems; healthcare service innovation and IT; information and knowledge management; mobile health

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; MICROCOMPUTER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876559240     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: 17412811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460458212446761     Document Type: Article

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