Toward Improved Implementation of Evidence-based Clinical Algorithms: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Clinical Decision Rules, and Clinical Pathways

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1015-1022

  Gaddis, Gary M ^a   Greenwald, Peter ^a   Huckson, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithms; clinical protocols; decision trees; evidence based medicine; research design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITION; CONSENSUS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DECISION TREES; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 35548981355     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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