Randomized clinical trial of a customized electronic alert requiring an affirmative response compared to a control group receiving a commercial passive CPOE alert: NSAIDe-warfarin co-prescribing as a test case

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 411-415

  Strom, Brian L ^a   Schinnar, Rita ^a   Bilker, Warren ^a   Hennessy, Sean ^a   Leonard, Charles E ^a   Pifer, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DRUG INTERACTION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICATION ERROR; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION ERRORS; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WARFARIN;

EID: 77958164182     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.000695     Document Type: Article

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