Impact of clinical alerts within an electronic health record on routine childhood immunization in an urban pediatric population

Pediatrics

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 707-714

  Fiks, Alexander G ^a,b   Grundmeier, Robert W ^a,b   Biggs, Lisa M ^a,b   Localio, A Russell ^b   Alessandrini, Evaline A ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Immunization assessment; Medical informatics; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INACTIVATED VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPHTHERIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MUMPS; PEDIATRICS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TETANUS; URBAN AREA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHILADELPHIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 35148882929     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-0257     Document Type: Article

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