Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Computerized physician order entry system improves quality measures compliance at hospital discharge
Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, May 26th, 2006
According to a recent report in the American Heart Journal, "Most measures used to assess the quality of care of hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) involve discharge medications and instructions. Implementation of disease-specific computerized physician order entry (CPOE) discharge tools may improve compliance with these measures."
"We studied 286 versus 290 AMI and 595 versus 656 CHF...
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