A pilot study on the views of elderly regional Australians of personally controlled electronic health records

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 201-209

  Kerai, Paresh ^a   Wood, Pene ^a   Martin, Mary ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Opinion; PCEHR; Personally controlled electronic health records; Public; Quantitative; Survey

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; OPINION; PCEHR; PUBLIC; QUANTITATIVE;

HEALTH; STAGES; SURVEYING;

RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; OPINION; PCEHR; PERSONALLY CONTROLLED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; PUBLIC; QUANTITATIVE; SURVEY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCESS TO RECORDS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 84892487989     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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