Electronic health record use, intensity of hospital care, and patient outcomes

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 216-221

  Blecker, Saul ^a,b   Goldfeld, Keith ^a   Park, Naeun ^a   Shine, Daniel ^b   Austrian, Jonathan S ^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

Electronic health record; Hospital medicine

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HOSPITAL MEDICINE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894340188     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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