Baseline observation of performance and inter-professional utilisation of institutional hospital electronic technologies to access and communicate key clinical information in a central london teaching hospital critical care unit
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Methods Local research ethics approval was obtained. We measured electronic system speed and accessibility (pathology results; imaging archive; PDF documents and clinical notes); conducted an inter-professional staff survey and used non-participant observation to analyse the utilisation and performance of hospital electronic systems and non-institutional resources to access and transfer key information.
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