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Development of a Computerized Laboratory Alerting System

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Decision Support Systems in Critical Care

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The role of the clinical laboratory is primarily to provide physicians with patient data for use in clinical decision-making. Studies have shown that laboratory test results are the data most frequently used by physicians in decision-making [1,2]. For such decision-making to be effective, the clinical laboratory must provide accurate laboratory test results in a timely fashion, and physicians must identify and utilize important test results in making appropriate patient care decisions. Factors which make it difficult to achieve these goals are 1) problems in data communication, 2) unavailability of the attending physician, 3) information overload, and 4) human imperfectibility 3].

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  1. Karen E. Bradshaw
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 90048-1865, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    M. Michael Shabot M.D. (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology) (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology)

  2. UCLA School of Medicine, 90048, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    M. Michael Shabot M.D. (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology) (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology)

  3. Medical Computing, LDS Hospital, 84143, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Reed M. Gardner Ph.D. (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics) (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics)

  4. University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Reed M. Gardner Ph.D. (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics) (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics)

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Bradshaw, K.E., Gardner, R.M., Pryor, T.A. (1994). Development of a Computerized Laboratory Alerting System. In: Shabot, M.M., Gardner, R.M. (eds) Decision Support Systems in Critical Care. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2698-7_9

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