"Smart Forms" in an Electronic Medical Record: Documentation-based Clinical Decision Support to Improve Disease Management

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 513-523

  Schnipper, Jeffrey L ^a,c   Linder, Jeffrey A ^a,c   Palchuk, Matvey B ^b   Einbinder, Jonathan S ^a,b,c   Li, Qi ^b   Postilnik, Anatoly ^b   Middleton, Blackford ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG INFORMATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 45849104646     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2501     Document Type: Article

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