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. 2012 Jan;58(1):e21.

Trends in the use of electronic medical records

Suzanne C Biro  1 , David T Barber, Jyoti A Kotecha
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Trends in the use of electronic medical records

Suzanne C Biro et al. Can Fam Physician. 2012 Jan.
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Figure 1. Proportion of physicians for whom EMRs are the exclusive record-keeping system, by province Figure 2. Proportion of physicians who use a combination of paper charts and EMRs, by province EMR—electronic medical record. *Family physicians, GPs, and other specialists were combined into a single group owing to small sample size. Where there are no values, data were suppressed owing to small sample size.
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