Use patterns of health information exchange systems and admission decisions: Reductionistic and configurational approaches

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1029-1038

  Politi, Liran ^a   Codish, Shlomi ^b   Sagy, Iftach ^b   Fink, Lior ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Emergency department; Health information exchange; Intensive care unit; Use pattern

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EMERGENCY ROOMS; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRITICALLY-ILL PATIENTS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; USE PATTERN; USER CHARACTERISTICS;

INFORMATION USE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGING; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HUMANS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84946478826     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.06.012     Document Type: Article

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