Clinical usefulness of electronic drug-drug interaction checking in the care of cardiovascular surgery inpatients

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 219-222

  Taegtmeyer, A B ^a,b   Kullak Ublick, G A ^a   Widmer, N ^a   Falk, V ^a   Jetter, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular surgery; Clinical decision support system; Interaction checking; Medication safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; PHARMACOLOGY, CLINICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870289388     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000343272     Document Type: Article

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