Decision Support and Patient Safety

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 231-244

  Plebani, Mario ^a,b   Aita, Ada ^a,b   Padoan, Andrea ^a,b   Sciacovelli, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support; Critical results; Health IT; Laboratory reports; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; REVIEW; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; LABORATORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PATIENT SAFETY;

EID: 85063322346     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: 15579832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2019.01.003     Document Type: Review

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