A meta-analysis of how clinicians use decision aids

"Clinicians’ fidelity to usage instructions of point-of-care decision aids in randomized trials was suboptimal during their initial implementation in practice, which may have underestimated the potential efficacy of decision aids when used as intended."

Peering into the black box: a meta-analysis of how clinicians use decision aids during clinical encounters
KD Wyatt, ME Branda, RT Anderson, LJ Pencille, VM Montori, EP Hess, HH Ting, A LeBlanc
Implementation Science, 2014, 9:26

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Evaluating adverse drug event reporting in administrative data from emergency departments

"Adverse drug events to outpatient medications were underreported in emergency department administrative data compared to the number of adverse drug events diagnosed and recorded at the point-of-care."

Evaluating adverse drug event reporting in administrative data from emergency departments: a validation study
CM Hohl, L Kuramoto, E Yu, B Rogula, J Stausberg, B Sobolev
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:473

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Effectiveness of computer reminders for improving quality assessment

"Thus, computer reminders seem to be useful for supporting the implementation of relatively simple procedures for quality and safety."

The effectiveness of computer reminders for improving quality assessment for point-of-care testing in general practice---a randomized controlled trial
M Brostrom Kousgaard, V Siersma, S Reventlow, R Ertmann, P Felding, F Boch Waldorff
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:47

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