Impact of a new medical record system for emergency departments designed to accelerate clinical documentation: A crossover study

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 94, Issue 26, 2015, Pages

  Inokuchi, Ryota ^a,b   Sato, Hajime ^c   Iwagami, Masao ^d   Komaru, Yohei ^a,b   Iwai, Satoshi ^a,b   Gunshin, Masataka ^a   Nakamura, Kensuke ^a   Shinohara, Kazuaki ^e   Kitsuta, Yoichi ^a   Nakajima, Susumu ^a   Yahagi, Naoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JR Tokyo General Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e OHTA NISHINOUCHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDENT; SATISFACTION; TIME; DOCUMENTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84942526323     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000856     Document Type: Article

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