Evaluation of interventions to improve inpatient hospital documentation within electronic health records: a systematic review.

Natalie Wiebe; Lucia Otero Varela; Daniel J. Niven; Paul E. Ronksley; Nicolas Iragorri; Hude Quan

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Evaluation of interventions to improve inpatient hospital documentation within electronic health records: a systematic review.

August 21, 2019

Wiebe N, Varela LO, Niven DJ, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019;26(11):1389-1400.

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This systematic review found that while interventions designed to improve inpatient documentation within electronic health records (EHRs) are highly varied, education and EHR reporting systems seem to be more effective in improving electronic documentation for hospitalized patients than other efforts.

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