Are family physicians comprehensively using electronic medical records such that the data can be used for secondary purposes? A Canadian perspective

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tu, Karen ^a,b,c   Widdifield, Jessica ^a   Young, Jacqueline ^a   Oud, William ^a   Ivers, Noah M ^a,b,e   Butt, Debra A ^b,d   Leaver, Chad A ^f   Jaakkimainen, Liisa ^a,b,g  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f Canada Health Infoway   (Canada)

^g SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adoption; Data completeness; Data quality; Electronic medical records

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; ONTARIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 84938913989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-015-0195-x     Document Type: Article

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