Background Clinical practice guidelines are an important source of information, designed to
help clinicians integrate research evidence into their clinical practice. Digital education is …

Objective There is a need to integrate the various theoretical frameworks and formalisms for
modeling clinical guidelines, workflows, and pathways, in order to move beyond providing …

Information technology can improve patient safety by preventing errors and facilitating rapid
response to adverse events. Computerized prescribing by physicians reduces the rate of …

A method and computer program for interfacing an expert system to a clinical information
system. Embodiments of the invention provide tight integration of the systems permitting a …

Despite enormous energies invested in authoring clinical practice guidelines, the quality of
individual guidelines varies considerably. The Conference on Guideline Standardization …

ContextPerformance feedback and benchmarking, common tools for health care
improvement, are rarely studied in randomized trials. Achievable Benchmarks of Care …

Background Clinical practice guidelines are not uniformly successful in influencing
clinicians' behaviour toward best practices. Implementability refers to a set of characteristics …

Objective To evaluate the causes of new cases of active tuberculosis (ATB) in patients
treated with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists included in the national registry …

Objective: To determine the clinical and financial outcomes of antibiotic practice guidelines
implemented through computer-assisted decision support. Design: Descriptive …

Several analyses have detected substantial quality problems throughout the health care
system. Information technology has consistently been identified as an important component …