How to improve vital sign data quality for use in clinical decision support systems? A qualitative study in nine Swedish emergency departments

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Skyttberg, Niclas ^a,b   Vicente, Joana ^b,c   Chen, Rong ^b   Blomqvist, Hans ^d   Koch, Sabine ^b  

^a ST GÖRAN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Cambio Healthcare Systems   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computer assisted decision making; Data quality; Electronic health records; Emergency care; Medical informatics; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VITAL SIGN; WORKFLOW; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; STANDARDS; SWEDEN;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SWEDEN; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84971673743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-016-0305-4     Document Type: Article

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