Improving antibiotic prescribing for adults with community acquired pneumonia: Does a computerised decision support system achieve more than academic detailing alone? - A time series analysis

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Buising, Kirsty L ^a   Thursky, Karin A ^a,b   Black, James F ^a,b   MacGregor, Lachlan ^a   Street, Alan C ^a   Kennedy, Marcus P ^a   Brown, Graham V ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZYLPENICILLIN PLUS GENTAMICIN; BETA LACTAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; ROXITHROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONOTHERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 50849090622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-35     Document Type: Article

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