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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Electronic Medical Record (EMR)"”.
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Assessing the Relationship Between Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Generated QTc Alerts and Cancer Patient Mortality
BACKGROUND: EMR generated drug associated QTc alerts are generated frequently in cancer patient populations and in the last few years their annual frequency has outgrown the number of unique patient visits at our institution. Anecdotally, they are largely ignored by providers, contributing to …
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Enhancing Primary Care Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Data in Alberta by Quality Assessment, Data Processing, and Linkage to Administrative Data
The growth of electronic medical record (EMR) systems in healthcare settings has created opportunities for EMR data to be reused for secondary purposes. Since EMR data are generated from clinical and administrative processes, the suitability for other uses (e.g. surveillance or research) is …
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Intraoperative antibiotic redosing in high blood loss cases for adults
… compliance data were collected and assessed via electronic medical record (EMR). Root causes analysis was conducted and proper interventions were initiated following several setbacks. While the overall percentage of pre-implementation and intra-implementation compliance rate did not significantly …
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MEDICAL CANNABIS USE AMONG CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH PRESCRIPTION OPIOID USE: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
<p>Medical cannabis is increasingly used as a treatment for chronic pain, and there is initial evidence that medical cannabis may lead to a subsequent decrease in prescription opioid use. The objective of the current study was to conduct a retrospective, naturalistic examination of medical cannabis …
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Implementing and Evaluating a Clinical Information Interface between an Electronic Medical Record and a Patient Classification System
… solutions, by different vendors, that allows electronic medical record (EMR) data to provide source data for the patient classification system (PCS). The end result will be a classification system that is fully automated. The creation and implementation of a clinical interface between software …
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New BSN Nurse Informatics Competencies: Perceptions of Academic Preparedness for Practice
… and included navigating and documenting in the electronic medical record. The most desired skills reported by participants to include as more curriculum focus were electronic medical record (EMR) navigation, hands-on experience with different technology systems, and documentation, charting, and …
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Medication concepts, records, and lists in electronic medical record systems
… implementation of medication concepts, records, and lists in an electronic medical record (EMR) system allows it to successfully perform many functions vital for the provision of quality health care. A controlled medication terminology provides the foundation for decision support …
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Implementation Plan for EMR and Beyond
… hospital in California has introduced a new electronic medical record (EMR) to meet the requirements of meaningful use mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) for all hospitals across the United States. EMRs are expected to improve quality in many areas, especially to improve …
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Improving advance care planning and advance directive rates in primary care through a multidisciplinary approach
… completion and documentation of ACP/ADs in the electronic medical record (EMR). Methods: The project was implemented at a primary care clinic in a midwestern Michigan community. DNP students attended an informational meeting regarding the organization's EMR-based ACP tool. An educational session …
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Integrated Smartphone-Based Computer Vision and Machine Learning Platform for Identification of Surgical Site Infections
… to connect and synchronize data with a remote electronic medical record (EMR) server developed at MIT, known as the PyMed EMR server. In this thesis, I describe the design and implementation of the main components of the mobile application and the complete application work flow. I also discuss …
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Validation Of An Emr Prioritization Tool For Diabetes Population Health
… which is in its early stages of evolution, is an electronic trace of patient information across continuum of care (COC) providers spanning hospitals, physician offices, home health programs, skilled nursing facilities, retailers, payers and new entrants. The information captured along the …
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Assess Effectiveness of Opioid Prescription Policies for Acute Pain Management
… at the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) due to the institutional guideline that prevents residents from prescribing schedule II narcotics without documented approval from an attending physician. OBJECTIVE: We sought to evaluate whether the UTSW guideline preventing …
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The Association between Depression, Anxiety and Clinical Outcomes for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
… A retrospective cohort study utilizing electronic medical record (EMR) data from a primary care physician (PCP) group practice was conducted to identify patients newly diagnosed with T2DM with at least 6 months pre-diagnosis and 12 months post-diagnosis of EMR data using International …
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Barriers and Facilitators to Diabetes Self-Management in a Primary Care Setting – Patient and Physician Perspectives
… approach (combination of patient survey and electronic medical record (EMR) database). A random stratified sample of 2,100 patients (age≥18 years) with a recorded diagnosis of T2DM (ICD-9 code: 250.xx) and having ≥2 physician visits was selected from a large physician group’s EMR database, …
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A Scalable Server Platform and API Design for Real-Time Health Monitoring and Diagnostics
… were tightly coupled with PyMedServer’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, which limited who could use them and how they could be used. In addition, this initial version of PyMedServer did not support complex multi-stage data processing pipelines and did not integrate with third …
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Factors That Influence Nonadherence Outpatient Medical Follow-Up by African Americans with HIV/AIDS at an Outpatient Infectious Disease Clinic
… with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who do not adhere to their medical regimen, including failure to maintain contact with their health care provider for health care monitoring, tend to have poorer health outcomes from the disease as compared to HIV/AIDS patients who adhere to their medical regimen (Cunningham …
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Outcome and Resource Use of Patients with Liver Disease: Analysis of Chinese Electronic Medical Records
… worldwide have recognized the potential value of electronic medical record (EMR) and tremendous efforts are underway to advance outcome research using EMR. Chinese EMR provides us a unique chance for analysis of the outcome and resource use of liver disease given the high prevalence of liver …
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Pharmacovigilance study using Electronic Medical Records
… efforts and costs. In contrast to SRS data, electronic medical record (EMR) data has no under-reporting or reporting bias and is inexpensive.The study aims to propose a new approach for applying quantitative pharmacovigilance method based on disproportionality analysis (DA) into EMR data. …
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Information transmission in the MIMIC II clinical database
The promise of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to store, retrieve, and communicate medical information effectively for a caregiver team has remained largely unfulfilled since its advent in the late 1960's. Previous studies have cited that the communication function of the EMR is critical to its …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
<p>Sepsis is a medical emergency that if left untreated can rapidly cause death for many patients due to effects that this systemic infection has on the human body. Millions of Americans nationwide are affected by sepsis on an annual basis. To reduce the number of patients who decline to sepsis in …
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