Missed Hypothyroidism Diagnosis Uncovered by Linking Laboratory and Pharmacy Data
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Implications of linking pharmacy and laboratory data to assess diabetes care.
1603 I n principle, it should be simple to link patients' laboratory studies with changes in their medications in order to assess the clinical decisions underlying their care. As individual care providers with an individual patient' s chart, we do it all the time. But evaluation of variations in care across patients, across providers, and across health care systems , while desirable, is present...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.5.574