Information Systems for Evaluating the Quality of Prescribing

Fish, Catherine A.; Kirking, Duane M.; Martin, James B.; Almentero, Daisy Rivera De

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“…Clearly there are rapid changes in drug technology, diagnostic techniques and pathophysiology systems. In these circumstances even the most dedicated physicians may not be fully informed of the latest pharmaceutical developments (Fish et al, 1992).…”

Section: Medical Semanticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The underlying objective in building medical thesauri is to maintain a high level of quality in the drug use management process. Quality of drug utilization is defined by Fish et al, (1992) along two dimensions: first, "the capacity of the physician to meet certain technical aspects of care when prescribing..."; second, by meeting a defined set of patient's goals. Consequently, a medical thesaurus needs to include and have a consideration of a number of system attributes (Karr, 1994;Kreling and Mott, 1993).…”

Section: Medical Semanticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Drug use management and IT‐based medical thesauri: issues of semantics and linguistics

Dhillon

Hackney

1997

Health Manpower Management

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Argues that by interpreting the semantic content of different actions, it will be possible to draw boundaries between those aspects of a system that can be computerized and those that will best serve the purpose if left alone. This will dissuade systems developers from being caught in the technology trap. The argument is conducted in the context of developing IT-based medical thesauri for drug use management.

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Section: Medical Semanticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Medical Semanticsmentioning

confidence: 99%