International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 75, Issue 5 , Pages 346-368 , May 2006

Customizing clinical narratives for the electronic medical record interface using cognitive methods

  • Pallav Sharda

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 1501 East Central Road, Arlington Heights 60005, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 9175094891; fax: +1 9175917554.
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  • Amar K. Das

      Affiliations

    • Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, USA
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  • Trevor A. Cohen

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 1501 East Central Road, Arlington Heights 60005, USA
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  • Vimla Patel

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 1501 East Central Road, Arlington Heights 60005, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, USA
    • Present address: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Clinic 5, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. Tel.: +1 212 305 5643; fax: +1 646 349 4081.

Received 9 February 2005 ,Revised 17 July 2005 ,Accepted 17 July 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.07.027

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 75, Issue 5 , Pages 346-368 , May 2006

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