title: How do patients perceive electronic documentation at the bedside?
abstract: Electronic patient records provide an opportunity for real-time access to patient information at the bedside, which has the potential to improve healthcare quality because it would increase efficiency and facilitate best practice. Patients in this study reported that portable computers used at the bedside did not affect the clinician-patient relationship. Many patients thought that the technology was a valuable tool and that it could foster an efficient hospital atmosphere and promote reliable and accurate medical documentation.
authors.affiliation: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: R Vico
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Dagnone
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Murdoch
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rimmer
authors.forename: Elizabeth G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: VanDenKerkhof
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009864:Ontario; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems