1st Edition

Clinical Problem Lists in the Electronic Health Record

Edited By Adam Wright Copyright 2014
348 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

348 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

348 Pages
by Apple Academic Press

Edited by a professor at Harvard Medical School who has extensive experience in this field, this important and timely book presents a variety of perspectives on the organization of patient medical records around patient problems, presenting a more effective problem-oriented approach rather than the traditional data-oriented approach. It is comprehensive, covering the history and importance... Read more

Introduction. Part I: History and Importance. Bringing Science to Medicine: An Interview with Larry Weed, Inventor of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record. Medical Records That Guide and Teach. Clinical Implications of an Accurate Problem List on Heart Failure Treatment. Part II: Attitudes and Use. Clinician Attitudes Toward and Use of Electronic Problem Lists: A Thematic Analysis. Healthcare Provider Attitudes Towards the Problem List in an Electronic Health Record: A Mixed-Methods Qualitative Study. Use of an Electronic Problem List by Primary Care Providers and Specialists. Distribution of Problems, Medications and Lab Results in Electronic Health Records: The Pareto Principle at Work. Part III: Improving the Problem List. An Automated Technique for Identifying Associations Between Medications, Laboratory Results and Problems. A Method and Knowledge Base for Automated Inference of Patient Problems from Structured Data in an Electronic Medical Record. Improving Completeness of Electronic Problem Lists Through Clinical Decision Support: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. Computerized Physician Order Entry of Medications and Clinical Decision Support Can Improve Problem List Documentation Compliance . Randomized Controlled Trial of an Automated Problem List With Improved Sensitivity. Part IV: Applications of the Problem List. Incomplete Care: On the Trail of Flaws in the System. Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Support Chronic Disease Management: The Need for Temporal Data Views. Indication-Based Prescribing Prevents Wrong-Patient Medication Errors In Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE). Index

Biography

Wright, Adam|