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. 2019 Sep;34(9):1697-1699.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05057-9.

Effect of Electronic Clinical Decision Support on 25(OH) Vitamin D Testing

Kuo-Kai Chin  1 , Jason Hom  2 , Marilyn Tan  3 , Christopher Sharp  4 , Suwei Wang  4 , Yi-Ren Chen  5 , Doris Chen  6
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Effect of Electronic Clinical Decision Support on 25(OH) Vitamin D Testing

Kuo-Kai Chin et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Sep.
No abstract available

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The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Vitamin D order rate before and after intervention. The order rate is defined as the number of 25(OH) vitamin D orders per primary care visits. The dashed line indicates the start of the intervention.
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Figure 2
Responses to best practice alert. Providers adhered to, ignored, or overrode the alert. Overrides involved choosing from a pre-set list of justifications or choosing “Other” and then providing an optional free text response. The five most common justifications for overriding the alert are presented as a counts and percentages.
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