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Nurses' satisfaction with use of a personal digital assistants with a mobile nursing information system in China

“…Nurses additionally could use a PDA to classify the patients according to acuity, surgery, or special examinations; thus, a PDA could automatically remind nurses when to weigh patients, take temperatures, measure the blood pressure, etc., which helps to guarantee the timeliness and consistency of administering medical orders. Regarding the safety and privacy of medical information, PDAs were used under the local wireless network in the hospital, which is the same as other clinical systems, guaranteeing the safety of patients' information (Zhu & Zhou, ).…”