What do physicians read (and ignore) in electronic progress notes?

Applied Clinical Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 430-444

  Brown, P J ^a   Marquard, J L ^b   Amster, B ^b   Romoser, M ^b   Friderici, J ^c   Goff, S ^c   Fisher, D ^b  

^a Division of Clinical Informatics Baystate Health   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Baystate Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Documentation; Electronic health records; Humans; Information seeking behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIANS; READING;

EID: 84901410873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18690327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2014-01-RA-0003     Document Type: Article

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