Handheld computers and the 21st century surgical team: a pilot study
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Handheld computers and the 21st century surgical team: a pilot study
BACKGROUND The commercial development and expansion of mobile phone networks has led to the creation of devices combining mobile phones and personal digital assistants, which could prove invaluable in a clinical setting. This pilot study aimed to look at how one such device compared with the current pager system in facilitating inter-professional communication in a hospital clinical team. MET...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-5-28