Tick Documentation: Pioneer Efforts

Impact of a clinical decision support system on pharmacy clinical interventions, documentation efforts, and costs.

Health care organizations are turning to electronic clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) to increase quality of patient care and promote a safer environment. A CDSS is a promising approach to the aggregation and use of patient data to identify patients who would most benefit from interventions by pharmacy clinicians. However, there are limited published reports describing the impact of CDS...

Termination of prehospital resuscitative efforts: a study of documentation on ethical considerations at the scene

BACKGROUND Discussions on ethical aspects of life-and-death decisions within the hospital are often made in plenary. The prehospital physician, however, may be faced with ethical dilemmas in life-and-death decisions when time-critical decisions to initiate or refrain from resuscitative efforts need to be taken without the possibility to discuss matters with colleagues. Little is known whether t...

First documentation of Rickettsia conorii infection (strain Indian tick typhus) in a Traveler.

To the Editor: Spotted fever group rickettsiae are gram-negative intracellular bacilli associated with arthropods, mainly ticks, as vectors. To date, 12 tick-borne rickettsioses are recognized worldwide, seven since 1991 (1). Indian tick typhus (ITT) is a tick-borne rickettsiosis prevalent in India (1). Although the disease has been recognized clinically, cases have been documented only rarely,...

Reuse Documentation and Documentation Reuse

This work has been supported by the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung. The reuse of application frameworks and class libraries can improve the productivity in software development considerably. Object-oriented techniques, i.e., inheritance and information hiding, that ease reusing software, can be applied to documentation and thus, enable documentation reuse. One can...

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