Quality improvement in preoperative assessment by implementation of an electronic decision support tool

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue E1, 2013, Pages

  Flamm, Maria ^a,b   Fritsch, Gerhard ^a   Hysek, Martin ^a   Klausner, Sabine ^c   Entacher, Karl ^c   Panisch, Sigrid ^a   Soennichsen, Andreas C ^a,d  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^c SALZBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRONIC DECISION SUPPORT TOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REIMBURSEMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; AGED; CLINICAL GUIDELINE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC DECISION SUPPORT; EVALUATION; IMPLEMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CLINICAL GUIDELINE; ELECTRONIC DECISION SUPPORT; IMPLEMENTATION; PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881320586     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001178     Document Type: Article

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