Impact of Electronic Medical Record Use on the Patient–Doctor Relationship and Communication: A Systematic Review

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 548-560

  Alkureishi, Maria Alcocer ^a   Lee, Wei Wei ^a   Lyons, Maureen ^a   Press, Valerie G ^a   Imam, Sara ^a   Nkansah Amankra, Akua ^a   Werner, Deb ^a   Arora, Vineet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; electronic medical records; EMR; patient doctor relationship

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PUBLISHING; SAMPLE SIZE; SPEECH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIDEORECORDING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84954474109     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-015-3582-1     Document Type: Article

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