Real-time clinical alerting: effect of an automated paging system on response time to critical laboratory values—a randomised controlled trial.

E. Etchells; N. K J Adhikari; C. Cheung; R. Fowler; A. Kiss; S. Quan; W. Sibbald; B. Wong

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Real-time clinical alerting: effect of an automated paging system on response time to critical laboratory values—a randomised controlled trial.

April 14, 2010

Etchells E, Adhikari NKJ, Cheung C, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19(2):99-102.

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Reporting critical laboratory results directly to physicians' pagers resulted in more rapid corrective action compared with reporting abnormal results by phone to the hospital ward.

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