Automated electronic reminders to improve redosing of antibiotics during surgical cases: Comparison of two approaches

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-63

  Nair, Bala G ^a   Newman, Shu Fang ^b   Peterson, Gene N ^a   Schwid, Howard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANESTHESIST; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79951540367     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.047     Document Type: Article

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