International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 7 , Pages 482-493 , July 2009

Using multi-perspective methodologies to study users’ interactions with the prototype front end of a guideline-based decision support system for diabetic foot care

  • Mor Peleg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    • Currently on Sabbatical at Stanford University, Medical School Office Building, Room X-215, 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 408 733 1531.
    • ,
  • Aviv Shachak

      Affiliations

    • Galil Center for Medical Informatics, Telemedicine and Personalized Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Dongwen Wang

      Affiliations

    • Biomedical Informatics Program, University of Rochester, NY, USA
    • ,
  • Eddy Karnieli

      Affiliations

    • Galil Center for Medical Informatics, Telemedicine and Personalized Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, RAMBAM Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Received 22 July 2008 ,Revised 27 October 2008 ,Accepted 25 February 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.02.008

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 7 , Pages 482-493 , July 2009

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