A computer alert system to prevent injury from adverse drug events: Development and evaluation in a community teaching hospital

JAMA

Volumn 280, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1317-1320

  Raschke, Robert A ^a   Gollihare, Bea ^a   Wunderlich, Thomas A ^b   Guidry, James R ^c   Leibowitz, Alan I ^a   Peirce, John C ^a   Lemelson, Lee ^b   Heisler, Mark A ^c   Susong, Cynthia ^a  

^a BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Samaritan Health System   (United States)

^c Banner Desert Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALLOPURINOL; AMANTADINE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ATENOLOL; AZATHIOPRINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CISPLATIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENOXAPARIN; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; HALOPERIDOL DECANOATE; HEPARIN; IMIPENEM; KETOROLAC TROMETAMOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PETHIDINE; PHENYTOIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM SPARING DIURETIC AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CARDIOTOXICITY; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MONITORING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 0032556151     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.280.15.1317     Document Type: Article

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