Impact of integrating public health clinical decision support alerts into electronic health records on testing for gastrointestinal illness

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-227

  Wu, Winfred Y ^a   Hripcsak, George ^b   Lurio, Joseph ^c   Pichardo, Michelle ^c   Berg, Rachel ^c   Buck, Michael D ^a,b   Morrison, Frances P ^b   Kitson, Kwame ^c   Calman, Neil ^c   Mostashari, Farzad ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Institute for Family Health   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical decision support systems; disease outbreaks; epidemiology; public health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLOSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84859731473     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e318241555d     Document Type: Article

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