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Effect of point of care information on inpatient management of bronchiolitis

W James King, Nicole Le Saux, Margaret Sampson, Isabelle Gaboury, Mark Norris and David Moher
BMC Pediatrics
2007, 7:4     doi:10.1186/1471-2431-7-4


A before and after study which took place in a Canadian tertiary care paediatric teaching hospital looking at the effect of access to point-of-care evidence within a computerized order entry system (CPOE) for children with bronchiolitis. 

BMJ Clinical Evidence was integrated into a computerized physician order entry system.  The study found that this resulted in a change in clinical practice, specifically showing a significant decrease in antibiotic use and an end to multiple bronchodilator use for children with bronchiolitis.


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