A Randomized Outpatient Trial of a Decision-Support Information Technology Tool
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A randomized outpatient trial of a decision-support information technology tool.
BACKGROUND Decision-support information technology is often adopted to improve clinical decision making, but it is rarely rigorously evaluated. Congress mandated the evaluation of Problem-Knowledge Couplers (PKC Corp, Burlington, Vt), a decision-support tool proposed for the Department of Defense's new health information network. METHODS This was a patient-level randomized trial conducted at ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.20.2388