Search results for "alert fatigue"
10th Annual Top Hospitalists issue
Meet our 2017 Top Docs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/11/10th-annual-top-hospitalists.htm
15 Nov 2017
Providing clinicians with prognostic data did not affect heart failure care
Readmissions and mortality were not significantly different between hospitalized heart failure patients who received care as usual and those whose records displayed an alert containing predicted risk of one-year mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/17/providing-clinicians-with-prognostic-data-did-not-affect-heart-failure-care.htm
17 Aug 2022
Computerized clinical decision support may help reduce unnecessary C. diff testing
A two-year cohort study of nine academic and six community hospitals in the U.S. found that testing for Clostridioides difficile decreased when the electronic health record stopped a clinician from proceeding with a test order if the patient had already been tested or had recently received laxatives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/09/computerized-clinical-decision-support-may-help-reduce-unnecessary-c-diff-testing.htm
9 Feb 2022
Silencing text-message interruptions
A system change allowed more concentration on medical education.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/success-story-silencing-text-message-interruptions.htm
15 Oct 2019
Automating antimicrobial stewardship
EHR integration of a patient scoring tool improved care quality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/success-story-automating-antimicrobial-stewardship.htm
15 Aug 2017
Results pending at discharge often stay in limbo
Handoffs from inpatient to outpatient care are a known problem area in hospital medicine, and one of the biggest opportunities for improvement could involve results of tests pending at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/pending.htm
15 Dec 2009
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Bedside tool to predict in-hospital death after stroke, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/jw.htm
15 Apr 2011