Erschienen in:
01.12.2013 | Editorial
Medicine Based Upon Data
verfasst von:
Charles Safran, MD, MS
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2013
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Excerpt
In this issue of
JGIM, Shirts and colleagues
1 demonstrate how information from an institution’s electronic health record can be used to tailor clinical decision support for a particular patient. Using the example of celiac disease, they highlight the importance of local context when aggregating clinical data. Not only does the sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic procedure vary with the institution as compared to published averages, but these parameters also vary within the institution according to who is ordering the procedure. …