Impact of an electronic clinical decision support tool for emergency department patients with pneumonia

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 511-520

  Dean, Nathan C ^a,b   Jones, Barbara E ^b   Jones, Jason P ^c   Ferraro, Jeffrey P ^d   Post, Herman B ^d   Aronsky, Dominik ^e   Vines, Caroline G ^a   Allen, Todd L ^a,f   Haug, Peter J ^d  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d Intermountain Healthcare   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ICD-9; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UTAH;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UTAH;

EID: 84930747093     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.02.003     Document Type: Article

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