Development and validation of a portable platform for deploying decision-support algorithms in prehospital settings

Applied Clinical Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 392-402

  Reisner, A T ^a,b   Khitrov, M Y ^a   Chen, L ^a   Blood, A ^b   Wilkins, K ^c   Doyle, W ^c   Wilcox, S ^b,c   Denison, T ^c   Reifman, Jaques ^a  

^a U S ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Boston MedFlight   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat casualty care; Decision support algorithms; Device connectivity; Prehospital care; Vital sign data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMBAT CASUALTY CARE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DECISION-SUPPORT ALGORITHMS; DEVICE CONNECTIVITY; EMERGENCY CARE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; VALIDATION STUDY; VITAL SIGN; VITAL-SIGN DATA;

COMBAT CASUALTY CARE; DECISION-SUPPORT ALGORITHMS; DEVICE CONNECTIVITY; PREHOSPITAL CARE; VITAL-SIGN DATA;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84884482075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18690327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2013-04-RA-0023     Document Type: Article

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