Development and evaluation of a comprehensive clinical decision support taxonomy: Comparison of front-end tools in commercial and internally developed electronic health record systems

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 232-242

  Wright, Adam ^a,b,c   Sittig, Dean F ^d   Ash, Joan S ^e   Feblowitz, Joshua ^a,b   Meltzer, Seth ^b   McMullen, Carmit ^f   Guappone, Ken ^g   Carpenter, Jim ^g   Richardson, Joshua ^h   Simonaitis, Linas ⁱ   Evans, R Scott ^j   Nichol, W Paul ^k   Middleton, Blackford ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^g PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j Intermountain Health Care ^*  (United States)

^k VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EXPERT SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PEER REVIEW; TAXONOMY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VENTILATOR;

COMMERCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953052257     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000113     Document Type: Article

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