Developing clinical decision support within a commercial electronic health record system to improve antimicrobial prescribing in the neonatal ICU

Applied Clinical Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 368-387

  Hum, R S ^a   Cato, K ^a   Sheehan, B ^a   Patel, S ^b   Duchon, J ^a   DeLaMora, P ^c   Ferng, Y H ^a   Graham, P ^a,d   Vawdrey, D K ^a   Perlman, J ^c   Larson, E ^a,e   Saiman, L ^a,d  

^a Department of Pediatrics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Department of Pediatrics Northwestern University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial stewardship; Clinical decision support; Implementation; Neonatal intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRESCRIPTION; SATISFACTION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION;

EID: 84904108580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18690327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2013-09-RA-0069     Document Type: Article

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