Health Informatics The University of Adelaide Australia
 




Health Informatics Unit
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia
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Pre-operative Decision Support

Team members: Michael Edmonds, Guy Ludbrook (Royal Adelaide Hospital) , Malcolm Pradhan, Bill Runciman (Royal Adelaide Hospital)


Introduction

Post-operative Deep Vein Thrombosis
An introduction into the problem of post-operative deep vein thrombosis, and our decision model for peri-operative prophylaxis. [ View ]
 
Pre-operative Screening Decision Support
An overview of the pre-operative screening decision support project. [ View ]
 
Post-Operative Nausea and Vomiting
An introduction to post-operative nausea and vomiting, and our approach to constructing a decision model for prophylaxis . [ View ]
 

Details

Workflow Diagram for the Pre-operative Assessment Clinic
A sequence diagram showing the pathways of information in the pre-operative assessment clinic. View ]
 

Publications

Developing an Evidence-Based Guideline: Prophylaxis of Post-operative Nausea and Vomiting
Project Report submitted to Adelaide University as part of Fourth year MBBS requirements, 1999. [ View ]
 
A Decision Support System for Pre-Operative Screening
Presented at HIC 2000. Discusses the development of an evidence-based decision model for Pre-operative screening using literature review and qualitative modelling.  View ]
 

Presentations

A Decision Support System for Pre-Operative Screening
This talk was presented at the Australian Patient Safety Foundation's summit on 'Hot Topics in Patient Safety' in Adelaide on the 17th of May, 2002..  View ]
 

Related

Adverse Events, Iatrogenic Injury and Error in Medicine
A brief introduction to the area of adverse events in medicine. This area has been brought to prominence by recent studies showing unexpected high rates of events leading to severe outcomes.
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