Improving Response to Critical Laboratory Results with Automation: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
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Improving response to critical laboratory results with automation: results of a randomized controlled trial.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of an automatic alerting system on the time until treatment is ordered for patients with critical laboratory results. DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled trial. INTERVENTION A computer system to detect critical conditions and automatically notify the responsible physician via the hospital's paging system. PATIENTS Medical and surgical inpatients at a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1067-5027,1527-974X
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060512