Prescribers' Responses to Alerts During Medication Ordering in the Long Term Care Setting

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 385-390

  Judge, James ^b   Field, Terry S ^a   DeFlorio, Martin ^b   Laprino, Jane ^b   Auger, Jill ^a   Rochon, Paula ^c   Bates, David W ^d   Gurwitz, Jerry H ^a  

^a Fallon Clinic   (United States)

^b Masonicare   (United States)

^c Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Department of Food and Nutrition Services and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care   (Canada)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LAXATIVE; OPIATE; PHENYTOIN; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FOLLOW UP; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; INTERVENTION STUDY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDENT; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LONG-TERM CARE; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REMINDER SYSTEMS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33745388147     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1945     Document Type: Article

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