Opportunities and challenges in creating an international centralised knowledge base for clinical decision support systems in ePrescribing

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 625-630

  Cresswell, Kathrin M ^a   Bates, David W ^b   Phansalkar, Shobha ^b   Sheikh, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDICINE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 79959365952     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs.2010.048934     Document Type: Review

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