title: Impacts of PDA-based access to clinical data in a teaching hospital: perceptions of housestaff physicians.
abstract: Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are commonly used to access medical information at the point of care. Systems that allow point-of-care access to hospital HIS data are currently in use or being implemented, but little has been reported about the clinical or educational impacts of such systems. We conducted group interviews with medical housestaff to ascertain their perceptions of such impacts. These findings add to the limited literature regarding the use of such systems.
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Danesh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mazloomdoost
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Embi
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D004526:Efficiency; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems