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Published in final edited form as: Cogn Technol Work. 2011 Mar;13(1):11–29. doi: 10.1007/s10111-010-0141-8

Table 6.

Themes and subthemes describing how personal use of electronic medical records (EMR) improved or worsened (a) colleagues' and (b) patients' cognitive performance

	% Mentioning theme

	Both hospitals	Hospital 1	Hospital 2
(a) IMPACT ON COLLEAGUES' COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE

Own notes accessed by colleagues (e.g., physicians, nurses) are more legible	30%	0%	67%

Medication orders are more legible for pharmacy	5%	0%	11%

Thought taken out of nurses' work	5%	0%	11%

(b) IMPACT ON PATIENTS' COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE

Outpatients can now access own medical records	10%	0%	22%

Patients have discharge reports that allow them to better care for themselves	5%	0%	11%

Electronic records prevent patients from losing prescription	5%	9%	0%