Aims A plethora of mobile health applications (m-health apps) to support healthcare are
available for both patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) but content and quality vary …

Importance Anticoagulants are high-risk medications with the potential to cause significant
patient harm or death. Digital transformation is occurring in hospital practice and it is …

Aims Inappropriate anticoagulant use increases the risk of bleeding and thrombotic events.
We implemented clinical decision rules to promote judicious medication use, as part of the …

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are developed independently or connected to the
electronic health record (EHR) or other computerized systems. The study begins with …

Background: Off-label dosing of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) is both common and
associated with adverse patient outcomes. Evidence describing best practices to support …

Background The use of anticoagulant medications is complex and prone to inappropriate
prescribing that impacts patient safety. Anticoagulation stewardship is a growing field that …

Appropriate perioperative management of patients on chronic oral anticoagulation (OAC)—
including warfarin and the direct oral anticoagulants—is a poorly defined yet important …

Inappropriately reduced doses (IRDs) of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are common in
clinical practice. We performed a retrospective review using electronic medical records of St …

Context.—Apixaban causes a false increase in activated protein C resistance (APCR) ratios
and possibly protein S activity. Objective.—To investigate whether this increase can mask a …

Objectives This study aimed to describe and evaluate the transition from a specialty service-
based prospective order approval system to a computerized clinical decision support …