Development, Evaluation and Implementation of Chief Complaint Groupings to Activate Data Collection: A Multi-Center Study of Clinical Decision Support for Children with Head Trauma.
Overuse of cranial computed tomography scans in children with blunt head trauma unnecessarily exposes them to radiation. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) blunt head trauma prediction rules identify children who do not require a computed tomography scan. Electronic health record (EHR) based clinical decision support (CDS) may effectively implement these rules but must only be provided for appropriate patients in order to minimize excessive alerts.
Author(s): Deakyne, S J, Bajaj, L, Hoffman, J, Alessandrini, E, Ballard, D W, Norris, R, Tzimenatos, L, Swietlik, M, Tham, E, Grundmeier, R W, Kuppermann, N, Dayan, P S, ,
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2015-02-RA-0019