Electronic medical records and the transgender patient: Recommendations from the world professional association for Transgender Health EMR working group

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 700-703

  Deutsch, Madeline B ^a   Green, Jamison ^a   Keatley, JoAnne ^a   Mayer, Gal ^b   Hastings, Jennifer ^c   Hall, Alexandra M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Callen Lorde Community Health Center   (United States)

^c Transgender Health Care Program   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST REDUCTION; CONSENSUS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GENDER; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PENIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE; SOCIAL WORK; TRANSGENDERISM; URETHROPLASTY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

ELECTRONIC; RECOMMENDATION; RECORDS; TRANSGENDER; TRANSSEXUAL;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS;

EID: 84882987094     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001472     Document Type: Article

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