Towards laboratory knowledge, not data, in 70% of clinical decision-making. What "knowledge management" can add to clinical practice?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1389-1390

  Salinas, Maria ^a   López Garrigós, Maite ^a   Uris, Joaquin ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SAN JUAN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

future; knowledge management; laboratory medicine

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LABORATORY KNOWLEDGE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LABORATORIES;

EID: 80051752050     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.636     Document Type: Letter

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