Clinical utility of an electronic poisons information and clinical decision support tool

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-8

  Watts, Martin ^a   Fountain, John ^a   Reith, David M ^b   Herbison, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Database; Emergency Medicine; Medical informatics; Poisoning; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

CD-ROM; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

TOXICOLOGY;

INDUSTRIAL POISONS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA BASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POISON CENTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0042591139     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(03)00009-1     Document Type: Article

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