title: Automatic appropriateness-evaluation and consultation-suggestion of antibiotics usage via mining of previous prescription data in hospital information system.
abstract: Inadequate infection subspecialty is main problem in most local hospital of Taiwan. Appropriate prescription of antimicrobial agents is an important issue in daily clinical practice. In order to avoid possible side effect and cost after inappropriate usage of antibiotics, we developed a system for automatic appropriateness evaluation and consultation suggestion of antibiotics usage via mining of previous prescription data in hospital information system.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health Informatics and Decision Making, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan/ROC.
authors.forename: Chi-cheng
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Polun
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D017723:Drug Utilization Review; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents