Monitoring the pulse of hospital activity: Electronic health record utilization as a measure of care intensity

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 513-518

  Blecker, Saul ^a,b   Austrian, Jonathan S ^b   Shine, Daniel ^b   Braithwaite, R Scott ^a,b   Radford, Martha J ^b   Gourevitch, Marc N ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84883656009     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2068     Document Type: Article

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