IT adoption of clinical information systems in Austrian and German hospitals: results of a comparative survey with a focus on nursing

Table 4 Comparison of German studies on clinical IT systems

	Wegweiser study	our study
nursing documentation system	55.0%	26.7%
surgery information system	72.0%	81.9%
laboratory system	74.0%	81.1%
PACS	53.0%	47.0%
electronic patient record system ¹	40.0%	45.8%
staff scheduling system	72.0%	76.7%
RIS	56.0%	54.4%

The Wegweiser study did not distinguish between different implementation phases of the electronic patient record. Therefore the percentage values of hospitals with a fully operational EPR and of those implementing an EPR in our study were added

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