Implementing Structured Clinical Templates at a Single Tertiary Hospital: Survey Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Electronic health record (EHR) systems have been widely adopted in hospitals. However, since current EHRs mainly focus on lowering the number of paper documents used, they have suffered from poor search function and reusability capabilities. To overcome these drawbacks, structured clinical templates have been proposed; however, they are not widely used owing to the inconvenience of data entry. OBJECTIVE:This study aims to verify the usability of structured templates by comparing data entry times. METHODS:A Korean tertiary hospital has implemented structured clinical templates with the modeling of clinical contents for the last 6 years. As a result, 1238 clinical content models (ie, body measurements, vital signs, and allergies) have been developed and 492 models for 13 clinical

SUBMITTER: Hwang JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7226057 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature