Countrywide Computer Alerts to Community Physicians Improve Potassium Testing in Patients Receiving Diuretics
Open Access
- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Vol. 10 (6) , 541-546
- https://doi.org/10.1197/jamia.m1353
Abstract
More than 20% of approximately 35,000 patients filling a diuretic prescription had no potassium blood test recorded within the previous year. A laborKeywords
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