Ten Commandments for Effective Clinical Decision Support: Making the Practice of Evidence-based Medicine a Reality

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 523-530

  Bates, David W ^a,b   Kuperman, Gilad J ^a,b   Wang, Samuel ^b   Gandhi, Tejal ^a   Kittler, Anne ^b   Volk, Lynn ^b   Spurr, Cynthia ^b   Khorasani, Ramin ^a   Tanasijevic, Milenko ^a   Middleton, Blackford ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0242664599     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1370     Document Type: Article

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