Attitudes of health professionals towards electronic health records in primary health care settings: A questionnaire survey

Informatics for Health and Social Care

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-32

  Secginli, Selda ^a   Erdogan, Semra ^a   Monsen, Karen A ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Electronic health records; Health professionals; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TURKEY;

EID: 84889763330     PISSN: 17538157     EISSN: 17538165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2013.834342     Document Type: Article

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