Computerized Triggers of Big Data to Detect Delays in Follow-up of Chest Imaging Results

Chest

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 613-620

  Murphy, Daniel R ^a,b   Meyer, Ashley N D ^a,b   Bhise, Viraj ^a,b   Russo, Elise ^a,b   Sittig, Dean F ^c,d   Wei, Li ^a,b   Wu, Louis ^a,b   Singh, Hardeep ^a,b  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d UT Housing   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic health records; health information technology; lung cancer; medical informatics; primary care; radiology; triggers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; UNITED STATES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84995693618     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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