Development and pilot feasibility study of a health information technology tool to calculate mortality risk for patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis: The Carotid Risk Assessment Tool (CARAT) decision-making, knowledge support systems, and theory

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Faerber, Adrienne E ^a   Horvath, Rebecca ^b   Stillman, Carey ^b   O'Connell, Melissa L ^b   Hamilton, Amy L ^b   Newhall, Karina A ^b   Likosky, Donald S ^c   Goodney, Philip P ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid artery narrowing; Health information technology; Risk calculator; Surgical decision making

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MORTALITY; PILOT STUDY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84928029395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-015-0141-y     Document Type: Article

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