Impact of electronic health records on long-term care facilities: Systematic review

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Kruse, Clemens Scott ^a   Mileski, Michael ^a   Vijaykumar, Alekhya Ganta ^a   Viswanathan, Sneha Vishnampet ^a   Suskandla, Ujwala ^a   Chidambaram, Yazhini ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits; Electronic health record; Electronic medical record; Long term care; Nursing home; Patient outcome; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048275215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.7958     Document Type: Review

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