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This paper reports on a study that was conducted jointly by the Repatriation General Hospital, Concord and IBM, Sydney to verify the potential benefits of a bedside terminal. The aim of the study was to evaluate the suitability of a nursing system developed in North America for Australian hospitals. The system studied was the IBM 7690 clinical workstation using the Spectrum point-of-care clinical series software.
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Ayres, D. (1991). A US Developed Nursing System — Will It Work In Australia?. In: Turley, J.P., Newbold, S.K. (eds) Nursing Informatics ’91. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95656-0_3
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