Impact of automated reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate in the veterans health administration

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 177-183

  Wang, Virginia ^a,b   Hammill, Bradley G ^b,c   MacIejewski, Matthew L ^a,b   Hall, Rasheeda K ^a,b   Scoyoc, Lynn Van ^a   Garg, Amit X ^d   Jain, Arsh K ^d   Patel, Uptal D ^a,b,c  

^a Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

chronic kidney disease; Health system; IT implementation; Veterans Affairs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONSULTATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VETERANS HEALTH; BLOOD; DOCUMENTATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATION; DOCUMENTATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922482370     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000275     Document Type: Article

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