Countrywide Computer Alerts to Community Physicians Improve Potassium Testing in Patients Receiving Diuretics

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 541-546

  Hoch, Isaac ^a   Heymann, Anthony D ^a   Kurman, Irena ^a   Valinsky, Liora J ^a   Chodick, Gabi ^a   Shalev, Varda ^a  

^a MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; CHLORTALIDONE; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; INDAPAMIDE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM SPARING DIURETIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONSTIPATION; DRUG MARKETING; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; ISRAEL; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOMITING;

EID: 0242580607     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1353     Document Type: Article

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