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Preventive medical care in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory: a follow-up study of the impact of clinical guidelines, computerised recall and reminder systems, and audit and feedback

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2003
BackgroundInterventions to improve delivery of preventive medical services have been shown to be effective in North America and the UK. However, there are few studies of the extent to which the impact of such interventions has been sustained, or of the ...
R. Bailie   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Investigating and learning lessons from early experiences of implementing ePrescribing systems into NHS hospitals:a questionnaire study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: ePrescribing systems have significant potential to improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare, but they need to be carefully selected and implemented to maximise benefits.
A Black   +42 more
core   +3 more sources

A study of general practitioners' perspectives on electronic medical records systems in NHS Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
<b>Background</b> Primary care doctors in NHSScotland have been using electronic medical records within their practices routinely for many years.
A Boonstra   +41 more
core   +2 more sources

Methods for identifying surgical wound infection after discharge from hospital: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Background: Wound infections are a common complication of surgery that add significantly to the morbidity of patients and costs of treatment. The global trend towards reducing length of hospital stay post-surgery and the increase in day case surgery ...
AJ Mangram   +19 more
core   +4 more sources

Barriers to proliferation of electronic medical records

open access: yesJournal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2004
Background Error reduction, quality improvement and lowering of cost can all be achieved through electronic integration of healthcare providers. Proliferation of standard electronic health records/ electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) software is an ...
Ignacio Valdes   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimising computerised decision support to transform medication safety and reduce prescriber burden: study protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation of drug–drug interaction alerts

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Drug–drug interaction (DDI) alerts in hospital electronic medication management (EMM) systems are generated at the point of prescribing to warn doctors about potential interactions in their patients’ medication orders.
M. Baysari   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinicians were oblivious to incorrect logging of test dates and the associated risks in an online pathology application: a case study

open access: yesJournal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2013
Background UK primary care physicians receive their laboratory test results electronically. This study reports a computerised physician order entry (CPOE) system error in the pathology test request date that went unnoticed in family practices.Method We ...
Amber Appleton   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in a Male Medium Secure Unit

open access: yesBJPsych Open, 2022
Aims The worldwide prevalence of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the adult population is estimated to be 2.5%. Prevalence studies have shown rates to be consistently around ten times higher in the prison population, but there is ...
Rachel Swain   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adoption of information technology in primary care physician offices in New Zealand and Denmark, part 2: historical comparisons

open access: yesJournal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2008
This second paper in a series of five looks at how computing in primary care began and provides background to the driving forces for automation in Danish and New Zealand primary care physician offices.
Denis Protti, Tom Bowden, Ib Johansen
doaj   +1 more source

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