Eliminating health care disparities with mandatory clinical decision support the venous Thromboembolism (VTE) example

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 18-24

  Lau, Brandyn D ^a,b,c   Haider, Adil H ^a,d,e   Streiff, Michael B ^a,b   Lehmann, Christoph U ^c,f   Kraus, Peggy S ^g   Hobson, Deborah B ^a,b   Kraenzlin, Franca S ^a   Zeidan, Amer M ^h   Pronovost, Peter J ^a,d,e   Haut, Elliott R ^a,b,c,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Division of Health Sciences Informatics   (United States)

^d Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine ^*  (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical decision support; Disparities; Venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRESCRIPTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RISK FACTOR; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTICOAGULANTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84919343985     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000251     Document Type: Article

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