Adoption of routine telemedicine in Norway: The current picture

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zanaboni, Paolo ^a   Knarvik, Undine ^a   Wootton, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adoption; Decision making; Implementation; Routine use; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMPLEMENTATION; NORWAY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; ROUTINE USE; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOPTION; DECISION MAKING; IMPLEMENTATION; ROUTINE USE; TELEMEDICINE;

HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; NORWAY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SECONDARY CARE; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84894061137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.22801     Document Type: Article

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