Does clinical decision support reduce unwarranted variation in Yield of CT pulmonary angiogram?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 975-981

  Prevedello, Luciano M ^a,b   Raja, Ali S ^a,b   Ip, Ivan K ^a,b   Sodickson, Aaron ^a,b   Khorasani, Ramin ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary embolism; Variation; Yield

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84886403183     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.04.018     Document Type: Article

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