Automated Evidence-based Critiquing of Orders for Abdominal Radiographs: Impact on Utilization and Appropriateness

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 511-521

  Harpole, Linda H ^b   Khorasani, Ramin ^c   Fiskio, Julie ^c   Kuperman, Gilad J ^a   Bates, David W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Duke University Medical Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 0031279527     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040511     Document Type: Article

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