Journal article

Use of an electronic medical record improves the quality of urban pediatric primary care.

Adriana M. Mann, Howard Bauchner, William G. Adams

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of pediatric primary care- including preventive services- before and after the introduction of an electronic medical record (EMR) developed for use in an urban pediatric primary care center. METHODS: A pre-postintervention analysis was used in the study. The intervention was a pediatric EMR. Routine health care maintenance visits for children se clinicians contributed an average of 141 computer-based visits each (range: 61-213). Computer-based clinicians were significantly more likely to address a variety of routine health care maintenance topics including: diet (relative risk RR: 1.09)- sleep (RR: 1.

Authors

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2003

Journal

Pediatrics

Volume

3

Type

Journal article

Categories

  • Data

Countries

  • United States of America

Tags

  • ICT

WHO Regions

  • Region of the Americas

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12612247

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