Data extraction from electronic health records - existing tools may be unreliable and potentially unsafe

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 820-823

  Liaw, Siaw Teng ^a   Taggart, Jane ^a   Yu, Hairong ^a   de Lusignan, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic health record; Medical informatics; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; STANDARD;

AUSTRALIA; DATA COLLECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84888413064     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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