Alerts in Clinical Practice

Clinical Alerts beyond Simple Detection

Frequency of Errors in Clinical Laboratory Practice

  Background and Objective: Laboratory errors are one of the major factors that affect the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and monitoring in patients.The objective of study is to evaluate the frequency and type of errors in different phases of testing at the Pathology Department of the Shalamar Hospital, Lahore and to evaluate the causes of errors. Methods: This observational study was carrie...

Integrating Medication Alert Data into a Clinical Data Repository to Enable Retrospective Study of Drug Interaction Alerts in Clinical Practice

Current clinical data repositories primarily extract data from multiple administrative and electronic medical record (EMR) data resources (e.g., hospital and physician billing records) containing specific patient-level data including demographics, medications, laboratory results, diagnoses, and procedure codes. It overlooks the importance of EMR system-level data (e.g., medication alerts that a...

Using real-time alerts for clinical trials

E. Chow1; M. Zuberi2,3; R. Seto2; S. Hota6,7; E.N. Fish8,9 ; D. Morra1,4,5 1 Centre for Innovation in Complex Care, University Health Network; 2 Investigational Pharmacy Services, Department of Pharmacy Services, University Health Network; 3 Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto; 4 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; 5 Centre for Interprofessional Education, Universit...

Interpreting nurses' responses to clinical documentation alerts.

OBJECTIVE To understand how nurses respond to alerts that detect attempts to enter into electronic health records patient weights that vary significantly from previously recorded weights. METHODS Examination of subsequent patient weights to determine if the alerts were true positive (TP) or false positive (FP), and whether nurses overrode alerts, changed their entry or quit without storing a ...