Association between clinician computer use and communicationwith patients in safety-net clinics

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 125-128

  Ratanawongsa, Neda ^a,b   Barton, Jennifer L ^c,d   Lyles, Courtney R ^a,b   Wu, Michael ^e   Yelin, Edward H ^a   Martinez, Diana ^a,b   Schillinger, Dean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAFETY NET HOSPITAL; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICATION BARRIER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMPUTERS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SAFETY-NET PROVIDERS;

EID: 84954541870     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.6186     Document Type: Letter

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