Abstract:Background and objectivePrimary health networks (PHNs) are tasked with supporting quality improvement in general practice. Traditional methods to do this are labour intensive and lack impact measurement. We aimed to measure general practitioner (GP) response rates to computer decision support at the point of care.
MethodsGold Coast PHN developed a decision support tool to deliver real-time medication safety alerts and prompts for interventions and record the GP intervention in 80 general practices covering 519… Show more
“…FHT is integrated into general practice electronic medical records to enhance management of a range of medical conditions, including cancer‐specific modules to identify patients potentially at risk of undiagnosed cancer by flagging abnormal test results. Other eCDS are being used in some primary health networks but are yet to be evaluated using randomised trials 29 …”
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“…FHT is integrated into general practice electronic medical records to enhance management of a range of medical conditions, including cancer‐specific modules to identify patients potentially at risk of undiagnosed cancer by flagging abnormal test results. Other eCDS are being used in some primary health networks but are yet to be evaluated using randomised trials 29 …”
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