The use of decision support to measure documented adherence to a national imaging quality measure

Academic Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 378-383

  Raja, Ali S ^a,b   Gupta, Anurag ^a,b   Ip, Ivan K ^a,b   Mills, Angela M ^c   Khorasani, Ramin ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized decision support; Emergency department; Imaging; Quality measures

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY PULMONARY ANGIOGRAM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATIONAL QUALITY MEASURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPUTERIZED DECISION SUPPORT; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT; IMAGING; QUALITY MEASURES;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893437461     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2013.10.017     Document Type: Article

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