OBJECTIVES Health care professionals seem to be confronted with an increasing need for high-quality, timely, patient-oriented documentation. However, a steady increase in documentation tasks has been shown to be associated with increased time pressure and low physician job satisfaction. Our objective was to examine the time physicians spend on clinical and administrative documentation tasks. We...

Developer documentation helps developers learn frameworks and libraries, yet developing and maintaining accurate documentation require considerable effort and resources. Contributors who work on developer documentation need to at least take into account the project’s code and the support needs of users. Although related, the documentation, the code, and the support needs evolve and are not alwa...

This diploma work examines the MAINTENANCE OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION within an software engineering process. The characteristics of technical documentation and its behaviour within an dynamic software development environment are important to understand the problems that occur with technical documentation. I explore the factors that influence the development and the resulting quality of the tec...

BACKGROUND Precise and complete documentation of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitations is important but data quality can be poor. In the present study, we investigated the effect of a tablet-based application for real-time resuscitation documentation used by the emergency team leader on documentation quality and clinical performance of the emergency team. METHODS Senior anaesthesiologist...

Programmers are like most other humans they prefer to act rather than read. In the context of application frameworks, this means that a programmer is more inclined to “try it out” than to read its manual. Rather than trying to instruct programmers to stop this all too human habit, this paper examine ways in which documentation can be organized so that a programmer is supported in learning throu...