Electronic Triggers to Identify Delays in Follow-Up of Mammography: Harnessing the Power of Big Data in Health Care

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 287-295

  Murphy, Daniel R ^a,b   Meyer, Ashley N D ^a,b   Vaghani, Viralkumar ^a,b   Russo, Elise ^a,b   Sittig, Dean F ^c   Wei, Li ^a,b   Wu, Louis ^a   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)

Author keywords

breast cancer; diagnostic delays; Electronic health records; health IT; mammography; medical informatics; primary care; triggers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ALGORITHM; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT CARE; REMINDER SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; BIG DATA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85032915997     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2017.10.001     Document Type: Article

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