How promptly are inpatients treated for critical laboratory results?

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 112-119

  Kuperman, Gilad J ^a   Boyle, Debbie ^a   Jha, Ashish ^a   Rittenberg, Eve ^a   Ma'luf, Nell ^a   Tanasijevic, Milenko J ^a   Teich, Jonathan M ^a   Winkelman, James ^a   Bates, David W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0031980335     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050112     Document Type: Article

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