Impact of electronic health record technology on the work and workflow of physicians in the intensive care unit

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 578-594

  Carayon, Pascale ^a   Wetterneck, Tosha B ^a,c   Alyousef, Bashar ^a   Brown, Roger L ^b,c   Cartmill, Randi S ^a   McGuire, Kerry ^a   Hoonakker, Peter L T ^a   Slagle, Jason ^d   Van Roy, Kara S ^a   Walker, James M ^f   Weinger, Matthew B ^d,e   Xie, Anping ^g   Wood, Kenneth E ^h  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Siemens Healthcare   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Electronic health record; Human factors engineering; Physician work; Time study

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

CRITICAL CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC ORDERING; IMPACT OF CHANGES; PHARMACY SYSTEMS; PHYSICIAN WORK; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TIME DISTRIBUTION;

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK; WORKFLOW; ADULT; CHILD; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GENERAL SURGERY; PEDIATRICS; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UTILIZATION; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; CHILD; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WORKFLOW; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84937636561     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.04.002     Document Type: Article

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