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| R S EvansSummaryAffiliation: LDS Hospital Country: USA Publications
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Rapid identification of hospitalized patients at high risk for MRSA carriageR Scott Evans
Department of Medical Informatics, LDS Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:506-12. 2008..Previous MRSA colonization was the best predictor but other risk factors were needed to increase the sensitivity of the algorithm...
Evaluation of a computer-assisted antibiotic-dose monitorR S Evans
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT 84143, USA
Ann Pharmacother 33:1026-31. 1999..To examine the effect of a computer-assisted antibiotic-dose monitor used to reduce the number of days that patients receive excessive dosages of antibiotics and the number of adverse drug events (ADEs) secondary to antibiotics...- Risk factors for adverse drug events: a 10-year analysisR Scott Evans
Department of Medical Informatics, LDS Hospital and Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT 84143 0001, USA
Ann Pharmacother 39:1161-8. 2005..Many adverse drug events (ADEs) are the result of known pharmacologic properties, and some result from medication errors. However, some are the result of patient-specific risk factors... 
Patient-perceived usefulness of an emergency medical card and a continuity-of-care report in enhancing the quality of careC H O Olola
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 23:60-7. 2011....- Clinicians' response to computerized detection of infectionsB H Rocha
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
J Am Med Inform Assoc 8:117-25. 2001..To analyze whether computer-generated reminders about infections could influence clinicians' practice patterns and consequently improve the detection and management of nosocomial infections... - Computerized identification of patients at high risk for hospital-acquired infectionR S Evans
Department of Medical Informatics, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT 84143
Am J Infect Control 20:4-10. 1992..Computerized regression equations to identify patients at risk of having hospital-acquired infections can help focus prevention efforts... - Building a comprehensive clinical information system from components. The approach at Intermountain Health CareP D Clayton
Intermountain Health Care, University of Utah, USA
Methods Inf Med 42:1-7. 2003..To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of an interfaced approach to clinical information systems architecture... - Implementation of an emergency medical card and a continuity of care report using continuity of care standardC H O Olola
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112 5750, USA
Methods Inf Med 48:519-30. 2009..We also describe studies to evaluate the effectiveness of these documents in CoC... - Countering imbalanced datasets to improve adverse drug event predictive models in labor and deliveryL M Taft
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, 30 North 1900 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA
J Biomed Inform 42:356-64. 2009..Risk factor identification with electronic pattern recognition techniques could improve ADE detection rates... - Development and impact of a computerized pediatric antiinfective decision support programC J Mullett
Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah, USA
Pediatrics 108:E75. 2001..We evaluated the impact of an antiinfective decision support tool in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)... - Automatic detection of acute bacterial pneumonia from chest X-ray reportsM Fiszman
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 7:593-604. 2000..To evaluate the performance of a natural language processing system in extracting pneumonia-related concepts from chest x-ray reports... - Trauma patient hospital-associated infections: risks and outcomesHarrison M Lazarus
Division of Trauma Services, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
J Trauma 59:188-94. 2005..CONCLUSION: In this study of trauma patients, ISS had the greatest effect on LOS, but increased age and presence of HAI did increase LOS and cost of care. HAI increased LOS more in the less severely injured patients... - Assessing data quality in manual entry of ventilator settingsDavid K Vawdrey
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 5750, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:295-303. 2007..DESIGN An analysis of 29,054 charting events gathered over 12 months from 678 ventilated patients (1,736 ventilator days) in four intensive care units at a tertiary care hospital... - A six-year descriptive study of hospital-associated infection in trauma patients: demographics, injury features, and infection patternsHarrison M Lazarus
Division of Trauma Services, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, and Department of Medical Informatics, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah 94143, USA
Surg Infect (Larchmt) 8:463-73. 2007..Information identifying trauma patients at risk, most frequent infection sites, and pathogens is of importance for surveillance and infection control. Measurement is essential to improving care... - System analysis and improvement in the process of transplant patient careCatherine J Staes
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Intermountain Healthcare, Utah, USA
Stud Health Technol Inform 129:915-9. 2007..The components developed for this project can be extended to meet other transplant program needs... - Computerized alerts improve outpatient laboratory monitoring of transplant patientsCatherine J Staes
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, RSE, SMH, SPN, CJS, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:324-32. 2008..Computerized alerts led to more efficient, complete, and timely management of laboratory information... - Detecting adverse events using information technologyDavid W Bates
Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 10:115-28. 2003..Information technology techniques can detect some adverse events in a timely and cost-effective way, in some cases early enough to prevent patient harm... - Enhanced notification of critical ventilator eventsR Scott Evans
Department of Medical Informatics, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT 84143 0001, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:589-95. 2005..This paper describes the development and implementation of this system and reports the initial results, user acceptance, and the increase in valuable information and patient safety... - Detection and prevention of medication errors using real-time bedside nurse chartingNancy C Nelson
Department of Medical Informatics, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT 84143, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:390-7. 2005..The aim of this study was to increase the real-time bedside charting behavior of nurses... - Policy and the future of adverse event detection using information technologyDavid W Bates
Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 10:226-8. 2003 - Development of an information model for storing organ donor data within an electronic medical recordCatherine J Staes
Department of Medical Informatics, Intermountain Health Care, 4646 Lake Park Boulevard, Salt Lake City, UT 84120, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:357-63. 2005.... - System-wide surveillance for clinical encounters by patients previously identified with MRSA and VRER Scott Evans
Department of Medical Informatics, LDS Hospital Intermountain Health Care, 8th Avenue and C Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84143, USA
Stud Health Technol Inform 107:212-6. 2004..In addition, the new surveillance system was able to alert infection control personnel when ever these patients visited any IHC inpatient or outpatient facility... - Using computer technology to detect, measure, and prevent adverse drug eventsReed M Gardner
J Am Med Inform Assoc 11:535-6. 2004 - Surveillance of medical device-related hazards and adverse events in hospitalized patientsMatthew H Samore
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132, USA
JAMA 291:325-34. 2004..Several detection methods had low efficiency in detecting AMDEs. The high rate of AMDEs suggests that AMDEs are an important patient safety issue, but additional research is necessary to identify optimal AMDE detection strategies... - Cost of opioid-related adverse drug events in surgical patientsGary M Oderda
University of Utah College of Pharmacy and School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 25:276-83. 2003..The estimated log cost difference of 16%, if applied to the median cost patient in the non-ADE group, averaged US$ 840. Opioid-related ADEs are common in hospitalized patients and increase LOS and total hospital costs... - Decision support in medicine: lessons from the HELP systemPeter J Haug
Department of Medical Informatics, Intermountain Health Care of Utah, University of Utah, 4646 Lake Park Blvd, Salt Lake City, UT 84120-8212, USA
Int J Med Inform 69:273-84. 2003.... - Forecasting daily patient volumes in the emergency departmentSpencer S Jones
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:159-70. 2008..There are few studies that explore the use of forecasting methods to predict patient volumes in the ED... - Opioid-related adverse drug events in surgical hospitalizations: impact on costs and length of stayGary M Oderda
Pharmacotherapy Outcomes Research Center, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Ann Pharmacother 41:400-6. 2007..Opioid analgesics remain a mainstay in the treatment of pain associated with surgical procedures. Such use is associated with adverse drug events (ADEs)... - A case for manual entry of structured, coded laboratory data from multiple sources into an ambulatory electronic health recordCatherine J Staes
Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84111, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:12-5. 2006..We encountered regulatory, logistic, economic, and data quality issues that should be of interest to others developing similar applications... - Adverse drug events in trauma patientsHarrison M Lazarus
Division of Trauma Services, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah 84143, USA
J Trauma 54:337-43. 2003..Only one ADE was directly attributed to a medical error. CONCLUSIONS: Trauma patients are at double the risk for ADEs. Analgesics are particularly associated with ADEs and use should be carefully monitored...