Electronic alerts for acute kidney injury

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 637-642

  Selby, Nicholas M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; e alerts; electronic reporting; mortality; standards of care

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CONSENSUS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; E-MAIL; ELECTRONIC ALERT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FLUID THERAPY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY SOFTWARE SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINE VOLUME;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; CREATININE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84887021889     PISSN: 10624821     EISSN: 14736543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNH.0b013e328365ae84     Document Type: Review

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