Closing the clinical laboratory testing loop with information technology

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 105, Issue 4 SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Connelly, Donald P ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Willard, Keith E ^a,b,g   Hallgren, J H ^a,h   Sielaff, Bruce H ^a,h  

^a UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Lab Information Systems Division

^d Medical Informatics Training Program

^e Medical Informatics Training Program ^*

^f Amer College of Medical Informatics

^g Health Systems Integration Inc

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Care protocols; Information technology; Laboratory use; Order entry; Physicians

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BLOOD COMPONENT; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029932317     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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