• DocumentCode
    3079194
  • Title

    Analysis of computer-supported oral anticoagulant treatment follow-up workflow

  • Author

    Niiranen, Samuli T. ; Yli-Hietanen, Jan M.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, POB 553, 33101, Finland
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    20-25 Aug. 2008
  • Firstpage
    4330
  • Lastpage
    4332
  • Abstract
    The objective is to explore the impact of computer-supported reorganization of oral anticoagulation treatment follow-up in a multi-year, multi-clinic pilot study. The focus is on how changes in workflow, namely in anticoagulation workload distribution between nurses and physicians, interact with the quality of care immediately after initial deployment and then later on during the pilot study. The results show that decreases in the physician´s time allocation did not result in a lessened quality of care during periods after reorganization.
  • Keywords
    Aging; Atrial fibrillation; Costs; Drugs; Laboratories; Marketing and sales; Medical services; Medical treatment; Personnel; Statistics; Administration, Oral; Algorithms; Anticoagulants; Computer Systems; Computers; Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Medical Records Systems, Computerized; Models, Organizational; Nursing; Physicians; Pilot Projects; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Time Factors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Vancouver, BC
  • ISSN
    1557-170X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1814-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1557-170X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650168
  • Filename
    4650168