Data standards to support health information exchange between poison control centers and emergency departments
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Data standards to support health information exchange between poison control centers and emergency departments
OBJECTIVE Poison control centers (PCCs) routinely collaborate with emergency departments (EDs) to provide care for poison-exposed patients. During this process, a significant amount of information is exchanged between EDs and PCCs via telephone, leading to important inefficiencies and safety vulnerabilities. In the present work, we identified and assessed a set of data standards to enable a sta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1527-974X,1067-5027
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-003127