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| Title |
Pitfalls in computer housekeeping by doctors and nurses in KwaZulu-Natal: No malicious intent
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-14-s1-s8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Caron Jack, Yashik Singh, Maurice Mars |
| Abstract |
Information and communication technologies are becoming an integral part of medical practice, research and administration and their use will grow as telemedicine and electronic medical record use become part of routine practice. Security in maintaining patient data is important and there is a statuary obligation to do so, but few health professionals have been trained on how to achieve this. There is no information on the use of computers and email by doctors and nurses in South Africa in the workplace and at home, and whether their current computer practices meets legal and ethical requirements. The aims of this study were to determine the use of computers by healthcare practitioners in the workplace and home; the use and approach to data storage, encryption and security of patient data and patient email; and the use of informed consent to transmit data by email. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 72 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 10 | 14% |
| Researcher | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 16% |
| Unknown | 19 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 14% |
| Computer Science | 6 | 8% |
| Psychology | 5 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 12% |
| Unknown | 25 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 February 2014.
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#894
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#20
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