What Causes Care Coordination Problems? A Case for Microanalysis.

Introduction: Care coordination (CC) is an important fulcrum for pursuing a range of health care goals. Current research and policy analyses have focused on aggregated data rather than on understanding what happens within individual cases. At the case level, CC emerges as a complex network of communications among providers over time, crossing and recrossing many organizational boundaries.

Factors determining the use of personal digital assistants among physicians.

The objective of this study was to examine the factors that might influence the use of personal digital assistant devices (PDAs) by physicians for assistance in the delivery of their routine patient care. An Internet-based single-institution survey was done of internal medicine resident physicians. None of the baseline demographic characteristics measured were associated with whether PDAs were being used or not by resident physicians in patient care.