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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2008
Comparative StudyPhysicians' attitudes towards copy and pasting in electronic note writing.
The ability to copy and paste text within computerized physician documentation facilitates electronic note writing but may affect the quality of physician notes and patient care. Little is known about physicians' collective experience with the copy and paste function (CPF). We surveyed resident and faculty physicians within two affiliated academic medical centers in order to describe physicians' CPF use, perceptions of its impact on notes and patient care, and opinions regarding its future use.
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2008
Promoting adherence to ventilator management and ventilator weaning protocols.
Studies have shown that ventilator weaning protocols have resulted in a reduction in duration of mechanical ventilation, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and the rate of re-intubation when compared to weaning directed by a physician. This project continuously monitors weaning status and provides feedback on each patients status. The specific aim of this project is to improve the adherence to ventilator management and ventilator weaning protocols.
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2008
Engineering of a clinical decision support framework for the point of care use.
Computerized decision support for use at the point of care has to be comprehensive. It means that clinical information stored in electronic health records needs to be integrated with various forms of clinical knowledge (elicited from experts, discovered from data or summarized in systematic reviews of clinical trials). ⋯ Then we applied the process to build MET-A3Support. The paper describes the engineering process and its results, including models representing selected elements of our framework.
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2008
Clinical trials in silico: rigorous assessment of treatment effect using electronic health records.
With their ability to balance measured and unmeasured confounders, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) provide the highest level of evidence regarding the effect of treatment. Analyses of administrative data have had inconsistent success when compared with the results of RCTs. ⋯ The comprehensive, longitudinal data within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can overcome the data quality issues. This report describes a new analytical method for EHR data that successfully replicates RCT results.
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2008
Developing a novel Internet-based psychoeducational intervention for dementia caregivers.
DementiaCareCentral.com is a new online intervention for family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The website includes a combination of educational information, psychosocial and peer support tools, and interactive resources. The website is being developed with feedback obtained from dementia caregivers in several rounds of needs analysis and usability evaluation.