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Compass for antibiotic stewardship: using a digital tool to improve guideline adherence and drive clinician behaviour for appendicitis treatment in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Background Antibiotic stewardship in the ED is important given the increasing prevalence of multidrug resistance associated with poorer patient outcomes. We reformatted a clinical guideline and disseminated it using our ED’s clinical decision support system (CDSS), E*Drive. to 21.41)).

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An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Mind The Bleep

It uses mathematical methods to work out trends and predict outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. This is important in healthcare as it thrives when large quantities of data are used and can provide insights that humans would have missed.