Electronic medical record-based performance improvement project to document and reduce excessive cardiac troponin testing

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 498-504

  Love, Sara A ^a   McKinney, Zeke J ^a,b   Sandoval, Yader ^a   Smith, Stephen W ^a,b   Kohler, Rebecca ^a   Murakami, MaryAnn M ^a   Apple, Fred S ^a,c  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; ICD-9; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT CARE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TROPONIN I; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923852881     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.234310     Document Type: Article

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