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The hopes, dreams and promises of 1970s and 80s have not come true. Health care organizations and hospitals in particular have not become paperless sites of sophisticated automation. Large databases are not available for tracking trends in clinical outcomes over time. Institution-specific financial and clinical databases seldom speak to each other. Why?
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Stevic, M.O. (1991). Guidelines for Measuring Quality Health Care or What do We do until We have a Large Database. In: Marr, P.B., Axford, R.L., Newbold, S.K. (eds) Nursing Informatics ′91. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46746-2_35
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