All results, both positive and negative, are made available on the laboratory reporting system to which all ward staff have access via a computerised reporting system, immediately upon completion of the test.
This appropriateness review was based on the patient's medical records (paper and/or computerised record and/or surgical reports, anaesthesia records, and correspondence).
Our findings are also similar to those of Simon et al 36 who used computerised health plan records and reported the highest rates for attempted suicide in the month before prescription, rather than after start of the prescription.
When asked at four months after randomisation, 19% of the usual GP care group reported having used computerised CBT; either on the recommendation of their GP, by self referral, or at the recommendation of a mental health professional.
Data collected from computerised data acquisition systems are normally reported as means over a given logging period, and so extremes of heart rate are averaged out.
Our estimates may be biased by selective non-response but conversely computerised questionnaires are known to increase reporting of high-risk behaviour [ 42, 51].
In addition, since our pathological reports had not been computerised, instead of collecting pathological findings for all adenoma we used an efficient epidemiological design, a case cohort design, to review and collect a set of random samples.
We did a computerised literature search for studies and technical reports published between January 1994 and June 2014, on Medline (via PubMed), Embase, Google Scholar, Scopus, the Cochrane Library, OCLC (Paper First and Proceedings First), PAIS International Database EBSCOO), WHO Global Health Library, and POPLINE.
The same barrier has been reported in relation to the use of computerised decision support systems [ 20] and computerised guidelines [ 21].
Using Fuji computerised radiography and a General Electric PACS our unit now reports soft copy mammography images.
