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Attitudes towards computers held by physicians, nurses and ancillary personnel in five Finnish health centres and the impacts of the real-time computer-based information system Finstar on the working patterns of nursing and ancillary personnel were surveyed. The results of both studies are reported in this paper.
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Hynninen, P. (1985). Attitudes to a Computer-Based Information System and the Decline of Paperwork. In: Roger, F.H., Grönroos, P., Tervo-Pellikka, R., O’Moore, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 85. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93295-3_136
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