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Karen Donelan
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 201
Citations - 12104
Karen Donelan is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 180 publications receiving 10975 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen Donelan include Drexel University & St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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Use of electronic health records in U.S. hospitals.
Ashish K. Jha,Catherine M. DesRoches,Eric G. Campbell,Karen Donelan,Sowmya R. Rao,Timothy G. Ferris,Alexandra E. Shields,David Blumenthal +7 more
TL;DR: The very low levels of adoption of electronic health records in U.S. hospitals suggest that policymakers face substantial obstacles to the achievement of health care performance goals that depend on health information technology.
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Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care — A National Survey of Physicians
Catherine M. DesRoches,Eric G. Campbell,Sowmya R. Rao,Karen Donelan,Timothy G. Ferris,Ashish K. Jha,Rainu Kaushal,Douglas E. Levy,Sara J. Rosenbaum,Alexandra E. Shields,David Blumenthal +10 more
TL;DR: Physicians who use electronic health records believe such systems improve the quality of care and are generally satisfied with the systems, but as of early 2008, electronic systems had been adopted by only a small minority of U.S. physicians, who may differ from later adopters of these systems.
The Impact of Health Information on the Internet on the Physician-Patient Relationship
Elizabeth Murray,Bernard Lo,Lance M. Pollack,Karen Donelan,Joseph A. Catania,Martha White,Kinga Zapert,Rachel Turner +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of the Internet on health care and find that patients' access to large volumes of information will improve their health, while variable quality of the information will have a deleterious effect.
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The Effect of Trauma and Confinement on Functional Health and Mental Health Status of Cambodians Living in Thailand-Cambodia Border Camps
Richard F. Mollica,Karen Donelan,Svang Tor,James Lavelle,Christopher Elias,Martin R. Frankel,Robert J. Blendon +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the long-term impact of trauma and confinement on the functional health and mental health status of Cambodian displaced persons living on the Thailand-Cambodia border.
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The Impact of Health Information on the Internet on Health Care and the Physician-Patient Relationship: National U.S. Survey among 1.050 U.S. Physicians
Elizabeth Murray,Bernard Lo,Lance M. Pollack,Karen Donelan,Joseph A. Catania,Ken Lee,Kinga Zapert,Rachel Turner +7 more
TL;DR: Physicians appear to acquiesce to clinically-inappropriate requests generated by information from the Internet, either for fear of damaging the physician-patient relationship or because of the negative effect on time efficiency of not doing so.