Clinical decision support tools: Personal digital assistant versus online dietary supplement databases

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1592-1599

  Clauson, Kevin A ^a   Polen, Hyla H ^a   Peak, Amy S ^b   Marsh, Wallace A ^c   DiScala, Sandra L ^d  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support; Complementary and alternative medicine; Dietary supplements; Drug information databases; Personal digital assistants

Indexed keywords

ALTMEDDEX; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DATA BASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG INFORMATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; LEXI NATURAL; MCNEMAR TEST; NATURAL MEDICINE COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE; NATURAL STANDARD; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SCHEFFE MULTIPLE COMPARISON TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MINERALS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; VITAMINS;

EID: 55949130544     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1L297     Document Type: Article

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