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Article: AHRQ tool designed to improve CAP clinical care.
- Article from:
- HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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AHRQ tool designed to improve CAP clinical care
Decision-support tool is evidence-based
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD, has unveiled a clinical decision-support tool for personal digital assistants (PDAs) that is designed to help clinicians deliver evidence-based medicine at the point of care. AHRQs new Pneumonia Severity Index Calculator (available from the AHRQ web site at http://pda.ahrq.gov/ (http://pda.ahrq.gov/)) is an interactive application for Palm Pilots and other PDAs to help physicians decide whether to hospitalize patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). This is the first of what AHRQ ...