Title :
The assessment of a data management system for critical care
Author :
Kari, Aarno ; Saijonmaa, Jaakko ; Ruokonen, E. ; Takala, Jukka
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Intensive Care, Kuopio Univ. Central Hospital, Finland
Abstract :
A patient data management system for intensive care was compared to manual record-keeping in a medical-surgical intensive care unit. The criteria for the comparison were the acceptance by the nurses, the reliability in collecting hemodynamic data and the physicians´ ability to recall the patient data from the last 24 hours. The patient data management system appeared to be better with respect to all three criteria.<>
Keywords :
medical administrative data processing; patient care; 24 hrs; critical care; hemodynamic data; intensive care; nurses; patient data management system; physicians;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.95008
