Electronic health records improve clinical note quality

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 199-205

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

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Internal Medicine Service Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^e CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical note; Clinical quality; Electronic health record; Note quality; QNOTE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTPATIENT; QNOTE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICAL RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84929503171     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002726     Document Type: Article

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