Evaluation of a clinical decision support algorithm for patient-specific childhood immunization

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-57

  Zhu, Vivienne J ^a,b   Grannis, Shaun J ^a,b,d   Tu, Wanzhu ^a,b,e   Rosenman, Marc B ^a,b,d   Downs, Stephen M ^a,b,c,f  

^a REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Children's Health Services Research   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood immunization; Clinical decision support system; Electronic medical record

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; HOSPITALS; IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NURSING; PEDIATRICS; VACCINES;

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; KAPPA STATISTIC; MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEMS; PATIENT DATA; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

VACCINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CODING; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 84865563332     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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