Clinical Decision Support Reduces Overuse of Red Blood Cell Transfusions: Interrupted Time Series Analysis

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 636.e13-636.e20

  Kassakian, Steven Z ^a   Yackel, Thomas R ^a   Deloughery, Thomas ^b   Dorr, David A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alert; Anemia; Choosing Wisely; Clinical decision support; Electronic health record; Electronic medical record; Interrupted time series analysis; Overuse; Quality; Red blood cell transfusion; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; COST; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OREGON; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL OVERUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OREGON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84960367869     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.01.024     Document Type: Article

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