Electronic prompt to improve outpatient code status documentation for patients with advanced lung cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 710-715

  Temel, Jennifer S ^a,b   Greer, Joseph A ^a   Gallagher, Emily R ^a   Jackson, Vicki A ^a   Lennes, Inga T ^a   Muzikansky, Alona ^a   Park, Elyse R ^a   Pirl, William F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; E-MAIL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

AGED; CLINICAL CODING; COHORT STUDIES; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84875745002     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.43.2203     Document Type: Article

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