Improving patient safety via automated laboratory-based adverse event grading.

Joyce C. Niland; Tracey Stiller; Jennifer Neat; Adina Londrc; Dina Johnson; Susan Pannoni

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Improving patient safety via automated laboratory-based adverse event grading.

January 30, 2005

Niland JC, Stiller T, Neat J, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012;19(1):111-5.

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This study reports on the development of an automated system for identifying adverse events in clinical trial participants. The system was both more accurate and more efficient than traditional manual record review.

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