Use of health IT for higher-value critical care

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 594-597

  Chen, Lena M ^a,c   Kennedy, Edward H ^c   Sales, Anne ^b,c   Hofer, Timothy P ^a,c  

^a North Campus Research Complex   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSING SHORTAGE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; TELEMONITORING;

EID: 84873618857     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1213273     Document Type: Article

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