QNOTE: An instrument for measuring the quality of EHR clinical notes

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 910-916

  Burke, Harry B ^a,b   Hoang, Albert ^a   Becher, Dorothy ^a   Fontelo, Paul ^c   Liu, Fang ^c   Stephens, Mark ^b   Pangaro, Louis N ^b   Sessums, Laura L ^b   O'Malley, Patrick ^a,b   Baxi, Nancy S ^d   Bunt, Christopher W ^b   Capaldi, Vincent F ^d   Chen M , Julie ^d   Cooper, Barbara A ^d   Djuric, David A ^e   Hodge, Joshua A ^e   Kane, Shawn ^d   Magee, Charles ^b   Makary, Zizette R ^d   Mallory, Renee M ^d   Miller, Thomas ^b   Saperstein, Adam ^b   Servey, Jessica ^b   Gimbel, Ronald W ^a   more..

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e FORT BELVOIR COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GLOBAL QUALITY INSTRUMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTPATIENT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; QNOTE QUALITY INSTRUMENT; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

CLINICAL NOTE; CLINICAL QUALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; NOTE QUALITY; QNOTE;

CLINICAL CODING; CLINICAL MEDICINE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906314053     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002321     Document Type: Article

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