Clinical Decision Support Tools

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U.S. Army Selects Cogon Systems to Develop Advanced Clinical Decision Support Tools for Hand Held Computers – April 12, 2007 Cogon Systems, Inc. has been awarded a Research, Development, Test and Evaluation contract by the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced … Continued

A trial of indication based prescribing of antihypertensive medications during computerized order entry to improve problem list documentation

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Conclusion: CDS using indication-based prescribing of antihypertensives produced accurate problem placement roughly two-thirds of time with fewer than 5{ca7ad0b74511a57bb2016f24c729dd7716d5352e92d2275aa1f91fb22c36b0a7} inaccurate problems placed. Performance of alerts was sensitive to the number of potential indications of the medication and attendings vs. other … Continued

Evaluation of the effect of information integration in displays for ICU nurses on situation awareness and task completion time: A prospective randomized controlled study

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Highlights: ? Integrated information display for ICU nursing tasks across medication management, patient awareness and team communication was shown to increase nurses’ situation awareness. ? Integrated information for a broad range of tasks decreased task completion time. ? Integrated information … Continued