Computerized alerts improve outpatient laboratory monitoring of transplant patients.
Authors evaluated the impact of computerized alerts on the quality of outpatient laboratory monitoring for transplant patients. For 356 outpatient liver transplant patients managed at LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, this observational study compared traditional laboratory result reporting, using faxes and printouts, to computerized alerts implemented in 2004. Study alerts within the electronic health record notified clinicians of new results and overdue new orders for creatinine tests and immunosuppression drug [...]
Author(s): Staes, Catherine J, Evans, R Scott, Rocha, Beatriz H S C, Sorensen, John B, Huff, Stanley M, Arata, Joan, Narus, Scott P
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2608