11 articles in this issue
Christopher Pearce,Aviv Shachak,Andre Kushniruk,Simon de Lusignan
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Simon de Lusignan
Adol Esquivel,Kimberly Dunn,Sharon McLane,Dov T_eni,Jiajie Zhang,James Turley
Objective To develop and test a statistical model which correctly predicts the approval of outpatient referrals when reviewed by a specialty service based on nine discriminating variables.Design Retrospective cross-sectional study.Setting Large public cou... see more
John Meredith
Background Deployment of electronic patient records (EPRs) is one of the primary goals of national NHS information technology (IT) initiatives. However, many systems come into disrepute through poor planning or design flaws, and media scrutiny focuses on ... see more
Krish Thiru,Peter Donnan,Peter Weller,Frank Sullivan
Objectives General practitioners are increasingly required to practice in a paperless environment and to collect clinical data electronically on electronic patient record (EPR) systems. A principal step in meeting general practice information needs contin... see more
Roland Grad,Pierre Pluye,Vera Granikov,Janique Johnson-Lafleur
Background In a prospective study to explore connections between clinical information delivery and information retrieval, 41 Canadian family physicians searched an electronic knowledge resource (EKR) as needed for practice. Research software, called the I... see more
Jeffrey Linder,Jeffrey Schnipper,Ruslana Tsurikova,Tony Yu,Lynn Volk,Andrea Melnikas,Matvey Palchuk,Maya Olsha-Yehiav,Blackford Middleton
Background and objective Clinical guidelines discourage antibiotic prescribing for many acute respiratory infections (ARIs), especially for non-antibiotic appropriate diagnoses. Electronic health record (EHR)-based clinical decision support has the potent... see more
Thomas Steinschaden,Goran Petersson,Bengt Åstrand
Background The eHealth Action Plan required the member states of the European Union (EU) to provide online services such as eprescribing of pharmaceuticals by the end of 2008. So far, implementation activities and efforts of the member states have been un... see more
Erik Black,Lindsay Thompson,Heidi Saliba,Kara Dawson,Nicole Paradise Black
Background Many websites allow consumers to evaluate their healthcare experience yet scant data exist that explore the type and content of reviews.Objective To evaluate and describe online healthcare provider reviews.Methods We analysed 16 703 ratings on ... see more
Jean Roberts
Access to web technologies and the increased bandwidth and capacity of these systems has facilitated the development of personal electronic health records (PEHRs).This conference reports the key messages from the Friends of the National Library of Medicin... see more
Lavenia Kulendran,Helen Atherton,Yannis Pappas,Josip Car