9 articles in this issue
Vasa Curcin,Michael Soljak,Azeem Majeed
Introduction Health research using routinely collected National Health Service (NHS) data derived from electronic health records (EHRs) and health service information systems has been growing in both importance and quantity. Wide population coverage and d... see more
Amanda L Terry,Moira Stewart,Martin Fortin,Sabrina T Wong,Maureen Kennedy,Fred Burge,Richard Birtwhistle,Inese Grava-Gubins,Greg Webster,Amardeep Thind
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Amber Appleton,Khaled Sadek,Ian GJ Dawson,Simon de Lusignan
Background UK primary care physicians receive their laboratory test results electronically. This study reports a computerised physician order entry (CPOE) system error in the pathology test request date that went unnoticed in family practices.Method We co... see more
Richard Altman,Jason S Shapiro,Thomas Moore,Gilad J Kuperman
Background The trend towards hospitalist medicine can lead to disjointed patient care. Outpatient clinicians may be unaware of patients’ encounters with a disparate healthcare system. Electronic notifications to outpatient clinicians of patients’ emergenc... see more
Piera Polidori,Concetta Di Giorgio,Alessio Provenzani
Background Adverse drug events may occur as a result of drug–drug interactions (DDIs). Information technology (IT) systems can be an important decision-making tool for healthcare workers to identify DDIs.Objective The aim of the study is to analyse drug p... see more
Andrew CK Lee,Simon Oliver,Kate Fletcher,Jean Robinson
Background Telehealth has been promoted as an adjunct to managing patients with long-term conditions. It has been used in various settings and for different disease groups. However, robust evidence for the efficacy of telehealth is currently lacking.Objec... see more
Freda Mold,Beverley Ellis,Simon de Lusignan,Aziz Sheikh,Jeremy C Wyatt,Mary Cavill,Georgios Michalakidis,Fiona Barker,Azeem Majeed,Tom Quinn,Phil Koczan,Theo Avanitis,Toto Anne Gronlund,Christina Franco,Mary McCarthy,Zoe Renton,Umesh Chauhan,Hannah Blakey,Neha Kataria,Simon Jones,Imran Rafi
Background Innovators have piloted improvements in communication, changed patterns of practice and patient empowerment from online access to electronic health records (EHR). International studies of online services, such as prescription ordering, online a... see more
Lisa J Ware,Sarah Williams,Katherine Bradbury,Catherine Brant,Paul Little,FD Richard Hobbs,Lucy Yardley
Background Demand is increasing for primary care to deliver effective weight management services to patients, but research suggests that staff feel inadequately resourced for such a role. Supporting service delivery with a free and effective web-based wei... see more
Renee Verwey,Sanne van der Weegen,Huibert Tange,Marieke Spreeuwenberg,Trudy van der Weijden,Luc de Witte
Background The system informs the nurse about levels of physical activity in the daily living of patients who are using the It’s LiFe! tool. The tool consists of an accelerometer that transfers data to a smartphone, which is subsequently connected to a se... see more