Systematic review of clinical decision support interventions with potential for inpatient cost reduction

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fillmore, Christopher L ^a   Bray, Bruce E ^a   Kawamoto, Kensaku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical costs; Clinical decision support; Cost effectiveness; Emergency medical care; Health information technology; Hospital care

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84890254745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-135     Document Type: Article

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