To act or not to act: responses to electronic health record prompts by family medicine clinicians
Author(s) -
Philip Zazove,
Michael McKee,
Lauren S. Schleicher,
Lee A. Green,
Paul R. Kileny,
Mary Rapai,
Elie Mulhem
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocw178
Subject(s) - mental health , psychological intervention , workflow , referral , medicine , standardization , government (linguistics) , health care , patient safety , electronic health record , nursing , medical emergency , psychiatry , computer science , economics , economic growth , linguistics , philosophy , database , operating system
A major focus of health care today is a strong emphasis on improving the health and quality of care for entire patient populations. One common approach utilizes electronic clinical alerts to prompt clinicians when certain interventions are due for individual patients being seen. However, these alerts have not been consistently effective, particularly for less visible (though important) conditions such as hearing loss (HL) screening.
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