title: Acute pain service management system. The successful experience of the hospital computerization and utilization of personal digital assistant.
abstract: Personal digital assistants (PDA) are increasingly being used in many medical fields. The object of this study is to introduce how the hospital computerization and the utilization of PDA can help to reduce the time of data processing for Acute Pain Service. After this study completed, we found that the use of PDA can dramatically reduce the time of data management and improve the quality of medical records.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Changhua Christian Hospital, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yung-Lung
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Tien-Hsiung
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Ku
authors.forename: Hung-Shan
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Ji-Leih
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Shu-Fen
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jinn-Sheng
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Hsu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shu-Chia
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D059408:Pain Management