Health Information Technologies: Which Nursing Homes Adopted Them?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 441-447

  Zhang, Ning ^a,b   Lu, Susan F ^c   Xu, Biao ^d   Wu, Bingxiao ^e   Rodriguez Monguio, Rosa ^a   Gurwitz, Jerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Facility characteristics; Health information technology; Nursing homes; Quality of care in nursing homes

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; COMPETITION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MARKET; MEDICAID; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84963930797     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2016.02.028     Document Type: Article

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