Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 51-67 , March 2009

Computer protocols: how to implement

  • A.H. Morris, MD (Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics)

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Divisions, Departments of Medicine, LDS Hospital, Intermountain Medical Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Pulmonary/Critical Care Division, Sorenson Heart-Lung Center, 6th Floor, Intermountain Medical Center, 1521 South Cottonwood Street, Murray, UT 84157-7000, USA. Tel.: +1 801 507 4603, +1 801 718 1283 (Mobile); Fax: +1 801 507 4699.
    • ,
  • E. Hirshberg, MD (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Divisions, Departments of Medicine, LDS Hospital, Intermountain Medical Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
    • Department of Pediatrics, Primary Children's Medical Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
    • ,
  • K.A. Sward, RN, PhD (Assistant Professor of Nursing, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
    • University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

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☆ Supported in part by the NIH (RO1-HL-36787, NO1-HR-46062), the AHCPR (HS 06594) the Deseret Foundation, the Respiratory Distress Syndrome Foundation, the LDS Hospital, the Deseret Foundation, and by Intermountain Healthcare, Inc.

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