title: Evaluating a digital Resident Diagnosis Log: reasons for limited acceptance of a PDA solution.
abstract: Personal digital assistants (PDAs) offer opportunities to speed the process of data collection and analysis. We developed a PDA-based program, the Resident Diagnosis Assistant, which allows neurology residents to collect key diagnostic information about patients seen and treated and the upload this data into a departmental computer. Physicians often use the expenditure of their time to decide whether to accept a new device.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Chiang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jao
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Hier
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D003625:Data Collection; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009462:Neurology