The intended and unintended consequences of communication systems on general internal medicine inpatient care delivery: A prospective observational case study of five teaching hospitals

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 766-777

  Wu, Robert C ^a,b   Lo, Vivian ^a   Morra, Dante ^a,b   Wong, Brian M ^b,c   Sargeant, Robert ^b,d   Locke, Ken ^b,e   Cavalcanti, Rodrigo ^a,b   Quan, Sherman D ^a   Rossos, Peter ^a,b   Tran, Kim ^a   Cheung, Mark ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIED HEALTH STAFF; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RESIDENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EVALUATION; HOSPITAL COMMUNICATION; INTENDED AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; SMARTPHONES;

CANADA; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION; HOSPITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84882778387     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001160     Document Type: Article

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