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Appendix A: Glossary
Pages 403-410

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From page 403...
... Clinical decision support (CDS) -- a health information technology component that "provides clinicians, staff, patients or other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance health and health care.
From page 404...
... Diagnostic management team -- a group of diagnostic specialists (pathologists, radiologists, and other diagnosticians) that offer participating health care professionals assistance in selecting appropriate diagnostic tests and interpreting diagnostic test results (Govern, 2013)
From page 405...
... . Health literacy -- "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health care decisions and services needed to prevent or treat illness" (HRSA, 2015)
From page 406...
... . Integrated practice unit -- a group of clinicians and non-clinicians who are responsible for the comprehensive care of a specific medical condition and the associated complications, or a set of closely related conditions (Porter, 2010)
From page 407...
... Initially developed to analyze industrial accidents, [root cause analysis] is now widely deployed as an error analysis tool in health care" (AHRQ, 2012)
From page 408...
... . Standardized patient -- "a person carefully recruited and trained to take on the characteristics of a real patient thereby affording the student an opportunity to learn and to be evaluated on learned skills in a simulated clinical environment" (Johns Hopkins, 2015)
From page 409...
... 2010. Incorporating health information technology into workflow redesign: Request for information summary report.
From page 410...
... 2011. Finding what works in health care: Standards for systematic reviews.


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