The Impact of a Pneumatic Tube and Computerized Physician Order Management on Laboratory Turnaround Time

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 181-185

  Guss, David A ^a   Chan, Theodore C ^a   Killeen, James P ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; PENUMATIC TUBE; PNEUMATIC TOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURNAROUND TIME;

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; TIME FACTORS; TIME MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 38149078766     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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