Clinical decision support implemented with academic detailing improves prescribing of key renally cleared drugs in the hospital setting

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 308-312

  Roberts, Gregory W ^a   Farmer, Christopher J ^a   Cheney, Philip C ^b   Govis, Stephen M ^b   Belcher, Thomas W ^b   Walsh, Scott A ^a   Adams, Robert J ^c  

^a REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b rL Solutions   (Australia)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENOXAPARIN; FUROSEMIDE; GENTAMICIN; LITHIUM; METFORMIN; SPIRONOLACTONE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOSE KIDNEY FUNCTION RELATION; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG CONFORMATION; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICATION ERROR; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; AUSTRALIA; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DRUG MONITORING; ENOXAPARIN; GENTAMICINS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 77955287931     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.001537     Document Type: Article

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