The use of a computerized provider order entry alert to decrease rates of clostridium difficile testing in young pediatric patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 542-546

  Nicholson, Maribeth R ^a   Freswick, Peter N ^b   Di Pentima, M Cecilia ^c   Wang, Li ^d   Edwards, Kathryn M ^e   Wilson, Gregory J ^e   Talbot, Thomas R ^e  

^a MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^b HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Atlantic Health   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; TENNESSEE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TENNESSEE;

EID: 85017609219     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.16     Document Type: Article

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