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Trial reportProceedings. Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care1992

Integration of a stand-alone expert system with a hospital information system.

J W Hales, R M Gardner, S M Huff

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Trial report in Proceedings. Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1992. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

J W HalesDivision of Medical Informatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
R M Gardner
S M Huff

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A stand-alone PC expert system for evaluating the appropriateness of inpatient admissions has been integrated with an existing hospital information system. The expert system supports preadmission screening for appropriateness of inpatient admissions. The HIS provides extensive clinical data in a coded electronic form, permitting high-level decision support. The integrated system was developed for a 20 week randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effects of preadmission screening on inappropriate inpatient admissions. Three factors of the integration are considered: programmatic integration of the expert system, seamless presentation of mixed platform applications, and integration of coded data from the stand-alone application into the HIS data structure.

Indexed as

Expert SystemsHospital Information SystemsMicrocomputersPatient AdmissionEvaluation Studies as TopicInpatientsUser-Computer Interface

Identifiers

PMID1482911
PMCPMC2248147

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