Doctors' use of electronic medical records systems in hospitals: cross sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the use of three electronic medical records systems by doctors in Norwegian hospitals for general clinical tasks.

Design

Cross sectional questionnaire survey. Semistructured telephone interviews with key staff in information technology in each hospital for details of local implementation of the systems.

Setting

32 hospital units in 19 Norwegian hospitals with electronic medical records systems.

Participants

227 (72%) of 314 hospital doctors responded, equally distributed between the three electronic medical records systems.

Main outcome measures

Proportion of respondents who used the electronic system, calculated for each of 23 tasks; difference in proportions of users of different systems when functionality of systems was similar.<

SUBMITTER: Laerum H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC60674 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature